Posted on 11/14/2021 7:25:19 AM PST by devane617
More than 100 federal prison workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden indicted for sexual abuse, an associate warden charged with murder, guards taking cash to smuggle drugs and weapons, and supervisors stealing property such as tires and tractors.
An Associated Press investigation has found that the federal Bureau of Prisons, with an annual budget of nearly $8 billion, is a hotbed of abuse, graft and corruption, and has turned a blind eye to employees accused of misconduct. In some cases, the agency has failed to suspend officers who themselves had been arrested for crimes.
Two-thirds of the criminal cases against Justice Department personnel in recent years have involved federal prison workers. Of the 41 arrests this year, 28 were of BOP employees or contractors. The FBI had just five. The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives each had two.
The numbers highlight how criminal behavior by employees festers inside a federal prison system meant to punish and rehabilitate people who have committed bad acts. The revelations come as advocates are pushing the Biden administration to get serious about fixing the bureau.
But a key part of Biden’s agenda is combating racism, and nowhere is racial equity a more fraught issue than inside prisons -
Think about the kind of person who would want to work there...
That might be because the DOJ views the FBI as their private SS and the DOJ regards their loyalty as more important than their criminality.
One thing that is overlooked in probably, EVERY, article about recruiting/retention of those wanting to take a job like that or become a cop/fireman/military member/emt is the fact that these younger generations do not want these jobs anymore.
Every year, going back to around 2015-16, the number of people that are willing to take these types of jobs, qualified to do so and, more importantly, WILLING to do so, drops by 5%.
Take that number, whatever it is and spread it out to all the different agencies and entities that need folks.
What’s the first answer? Pay them more. Make the pay more in line with the private sector. Well, you can’t pay private sector wages and still have “fata$$” civil service pensions because, you’ll either need to raise taxes through the roof(NY, California, NJ,etc) or you’ll go broke.
Toss in the internet and TikTok-Facebook-Snapchat-Instagram.
Toss in the feminization of boys at the earliest levels of growth.
Toss in emasculation.
Toss in pretty much everything on the Leftist agenda with regards to education. T
oss in that so many think they’ll become the next Zuckerberg-Dorsey-???.
Toss in that folks just don’t want those jobs anymore.
Toss in getting filmed and second guessed for everything you do, realizing that some truly do need to be second guessed and dealt with for abusing their position.
Toss in dealing with the worst of society and knowing that they have more rights than you do, in some cases and that the media, no matter how bad a person they are(Floyd, Blake, Garner, Brown), will make you the bad guy and prop them up like heroes.
Not saying that what these 100 or whatever did was right. Not saying that they don’t deserve to be dealt with and the accept the punishment they receive. But, for the folks that don’t like it, step up, fill out the application, go through the background check and training and go to work in a federal prison, put on a duty belt and vest and answer the domestic violence call, jump in the fire truck and run into a burning building.
Would've been a whole lot easier just to go and talk to G. Gordon Libby before he died. He was a political prisoner for 8 years and he knew about it.
Similarly, the surveillance systems installed over the checkout counters of many retail stores are there to keep an eye on employees who may steal or run theft schemes with friends and family posing as customers. If caught and pressed for an explanation, you can be sure they’d say they weren’t paid enough, were treated poorly, etc.
there are 156,000 federal inmates in 122 institutions operated by 38,000 correctional workers, most staff were military veterans or from police backgrounds and we all know any criminal activity puts all of us in danger, so 100 law breakers is not bad over 3 years, I will also bet all were caught by dedicated staff, we are human and suffer the same weaknesses as the rest of society.
Call the FBI … oh wait they’re crooks too 🤪
We’ll get back to that once we solve climate change! They’ll just have to make do.
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