“We are just so understaffed, they force us to make 150k in overtime because we are so terribly understaffed!” I’m not saying that is what is happening there, but it wouldn’t shock me. It could be that they are poorly paid, understaffed and over worked. But yeah I guess I would find that surprising at a high profile NYC fed union facility.
Freegards
Apparently there is a ‘hiring freeze’:
My view of the staffing based on information from the 90s.
The highest paid Correctional Officers in the country are Cal and NY. And they have strong unions. I would think they have vacancies at this BOP federal jail. I am not excusing their not visually supervising the high risk, high profile inmate, as I have said on numerous threads.
It is probably easier for the city and state to hire people in jails and prisons in NY than the BOP. IIRTC BOP pays less that NY and Cal pay the state officers and the deputies get in the jails. Just a side bar.
That being said, when I was a young officer, I wanted vacancies. That’s how I bought a house and had new cars in the garage, and my wife stayed home till my youngest went to pre-school.
When i became a manager, my take-home went down because of no overtime.