Officers want more Supermax staffing(union officers predict a prison riot)

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

This prison has the 400 most dangerous inmates in the federal prison system.

Among the inmates are Zacarias Moussaoui,Theodore Kaczynski, Terry Nichols and Matthew Hale. The cuts in staffing are creating terrible tensions, since the inmates can't always get their time outside or make calls, because there aren't enough officers to monitor them.

There is some very scary stuff in here and the corrections officers and their union is trying to do something before it's too late. :scared:

Union official says that prison riot is a matter of time

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"Those units should not go unmanned at all," said state Rep. Buffie McFadyen, D-Pueblo West. She will testify at the arbitration hearing. "The Florence police and the Fremont County Sheriff's Department can't handle a terrorist attack. Fort Carson couldn't respond. The soldiers are in Iraq."

McFadyen said there were no murders at ADX for 11 years after the facility opened, but when staffing levels were decreased after February 2005, there were two inmate murders within two months. "We aren't asking for extras," she said. "We're asking for reasonableness."

McFadyen and the union representatives blamed the Bush administration's budget cuts, which gave the federal bureau of prisons few alternatives to leaving positions vacant.

"I don't want to be talking about this after someone is already dead and the politicians are saying why did this happen," Schnobrich said.

MKJ

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4707983,00.html

edited to add, more secure under gwb? NOT!!!!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. kick, for our union brothers and sisters whose lives are threatened

MKJ

[ninkasi]

2. Every aspect of life

in this country has been damaged by Chimp's obsession with cutting taxes for the rich, funneling money to his cronies, and the massive disaster of his Iraq war. I only hope that if we take back one house of Congress, we can begin to curb the worst of his excesses. It won't be easy, simply because he has damaged so much in the years he's been in office. He has done far more damage than Osama or Saddam could have done.

[Southsideirish]

3. Those places are God awful torture holes. Who ever came up with the

idea? No civilized country should tolerate them.

[sweetheart]

4. kennels are more civil.

What human creations are they breeding in the experiment that there
needs be so many prisons, what civil emnity exists needs a crackdown,
put the slaves back in the jails and get order back on the plantation,
steal their existance from them for an uncivil lie, and ugly war
mammon that destroys everything and everyone it touches... united
corporate states.

:rant:

[donco6]

5. My hubby is from Florence.

"The Florence police and the Fremont County Sheriff's Department can't handle a terrorist attack."

Now THAT my friends is the understatement of the year. Florence, Colorado is not even a wide spot in the road.