By Beth Germano
Boston CBS Local
BOSTON — The bills keep coming but not the paycheck for Joe Gaucher. He’s what the federal government calls an “excepted” employee, a corrections officer at the Devens Federal Medical Center overseeing mob bosses, sex offenders, and a young accused terrorist named Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
“We can’t leave them alone. We can’t put up a closed sign at 5:00 and say we’ll be back. We’re there 24 hours a day,” said Gaucher. But he has medical bills, credit card bills, a mortgage payment all coming up and he’s not sure how long he can withstand a government shutdown.
Heather Wilson is in the same boat. Her husband Mike works the night shift at Devens and her part-time nursing job, she says, will only go so far with three young children and those bills. “We still have to pay for daycare, gas to get to work. Politicians don’t care and are not putting themselves in our shoes,” she said.
Full story: Corrections Officers Forced To Work Without Pay During Government Shutdown