Unions

Union says the plan to close the Larch Corrections Center "will harm workers, incarcerated individuals and their families"

200 COs, who oppose the move, and the 500 inmates they oversee will be relocated from the floating jail to Rikers Island

COs, inmate activists ask for better conditions amid concerns over reduced social time, extreme heat and retaliation fears

Union president for COs jokes that "everything runs off duct tape and band-aids” in the understaffed prison with failing infrastructure

The new contract, which requires union and legislature approval, also includes a $1,200 health and wellness stiped in 2023 and 2024

Officials asked for more staff after a High Desert State inmate was fatally stabbed with a prison-made shank by another prisoner who escaped his separation cage

The Uniformed Officers Coalition includes unions that represent correction officers, rank-and-file firefighters, and NYPD sergeants, captains and lieutenants

In the unit where one of the attacks took place, there is one officer for every 64 inmates and officers routinely work 16 hour shifts, the union said

The plan had surprised the union and even drew criticism from justice reformers

Teamsters Local 839 wants access to the jail to meet with their employees to investigate complaints

Expansion of the Heart and Lung Act will add park rangers, some corrections employees, port and housing police and university officers

Mail, not COs, is the "major source" of contraband smuggled into New York Department of Correction jails

Union presses prison officials to make necessary repairs to ensure the N.C. federal prison is a safe working environment

President of the Assistant Deputy Wardens/Deputy Wardens Association calls the plan “unfair, unequal and devastating”

The contract gives the county right to hire up to 13 part-time COs, which will "substantially cut down on overtime"