WITI
OXFORD — Federal prison guards in Oxford are still reporting to work, but they’re not being paid — at least not until the government opens again, and workers are worried about how they’ll make ends meet during the shutdown.
More than 800,000 federal employees have been furloughed at national agencies like the IRS, the National Institutes of Health, the park service and the museums, but not 300 employees at Wisconsin’s only federal prison. Those guards have been told to report for duty without knowing when their next paycheck will come.
“A lot of us are concerned about how we’re going to get to work next week. Just because we’re federal employees, we still live paycheck to paycheck,” Dave Dauman said.
Full story: Federal prison guards in Wisconsin report to work without pay