BOP employees

[KentuckyBOP]

Thanks TSPGO.COM . It is refreshing to know that a fellow bureau employee above the GS-11 grade was actually capable of devising such a plan of action...Miracles will never cease....Thanks for coming out of the closet and sharing your info......My faith in the "family" is being restored..

 

[buda]

The thread is alive and kicking....nice

TSPGO I never knew your secret!

 

[tspgo_com]

The thread is alive and kicking....nice

TSPGO I never knew your secret!

Hi Buda:

No secret at all. Just keeping a low profile.

Wishing the very best to you and to the rest of the Bureau's finest posting in here.

Keep well!

 

[Callme_CO]

Hey "bop" brothers and sisters,

It's been awhile since i've been on. Just thought i'd check in to say i'm still kicking. Life's good...works ok. pay could be better.

 

[Callme_CO]

I'm curious how would you (bop employees) say your institution is being run?

 

[charmed855]

Excess Heavy Metal Levels Found in Federal Prison Industry; Health Officials Urge Immediate Closure of Electronics Recycling in Ohio Facility - PEER, December 12, 2007 By PEER, http://www.texasenvironment.org/news_story.cfm?IID=429

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Federal health officials found staff and inmates are being exposed to concentrations of lead and cadmium far above permissible limits in a prison industry computer recycling plant located in eastern Ohio, according to a report released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The officials urged an immediate shutdown of computer recycling operations at the Elkton Federal Correctional Institution and strict new anti-contamination safeguards if the factory is to reopen.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The November 15, 2007 report was written by officials from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health as well as the Federal Occupational Health Service based upon sampling this February for only lead and cadmium in various parts of the Elkton electronics recycling industry complex. The report was submitted to the Justice Department Office of Inspector General as part of its system-wide review of all the recycling centers. That review was sparked by a whistleblower disclosure from a safety manager, Leroy Smith, documenting similar dangers in the federal prison at Atwater, located in central California.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The Elkton report noted that airborne lead and cadmium, both dangerous heavy metals, accumulated at alarmingly concentrations inside factory air filters and ventilation systems:[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"[T]he data from the 'filter change-out' operation showed that that airborne exposures can exceed by a factor of 450 times the concentration adopted by OSHA as the Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) for cadmium and over 50 times the PEL for lead. Even though workers performing this operation wore respiratory protection equipment…these excessive exposures will exceed the Protection Factor afforded by this type of respirator."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Most of the heavy metal contamination springs from inmates breaking up computers with hammers in "the cathode ray tube glass breaking operation." Even outside the glass breaking area where exposures were relatively low, the health review found lead and cadmium residues on work surfaces where workers are not wearing protective equipment. In one factory section, "one [dust] sample…was as high as 16% lead."[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Ever since Leroy Smith went public with his revelations about conditions at Atwater, every one of the six other federal prisons with computer recycling plants should have been on notice that they are putting the health of their own people at risk," stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, whose organization assisted Smith with his 2004 disclosure which was validated by the U.S Office of Special Counsel.
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Besides workers, families of staff members may have been routinely exposed to dust carried home in the staff member's clothing. While the report recommended that an immediate plan be "implemented in order to protect staff, inmates, contractors and the environment from lead and cadmium residues" it did not urge that staff and inmates, who have worked at the Elkton recycling center for years since it started in 1998, undergo medical check-ups and long-term health monitoring.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Long-term exposure to lead and cadmium, even at low levels, can be expected to contribute to health problems down the line," Ruch added, noting that the current review by the Justice Department, which is in charge of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, has been going on for more than 20 months. "In addition to halting any further contamination, the Justice Department needs to oversee thorough health check-ups for everyone who may have been exposed at any of these institutions."

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Instead of behaving responsibly, the Bureau of Prisons has looked the other way, while the federal prison industry authority, UNICOR, opened additional 'computer-recycling' facilities without proper health safeguards in place," said Mary Dryovage, Leroy Smith's attorney, noting that Smith has filed a new whistleblower retaliation complaint since being transferred to a Tucson correctional facility. "The whistleblower laws need to be expanded to impose appropriate penalties to discourage official lawbreakers."[/FONT]

 

[Guest2]

I'm curious how would you (bop employees) say your institution is being run?

Mission Critical Rosters, Staff Shortages, Doing More With Less,
Releases Of Rival Gang Members on the Compund with "Kill On
Sight Orders", 1:323 staff to inmate ratio in M/W Housing Units.
"Can Anyone Say - RETIREMENT"

 

[Gilligan]

Mission Critical Rosters, Staff Shortages, Doing More With Less,
Releases Of Rival Gang Members on the Compund with "Kill On
Sight Orders", 1:323 staff to inmate ratio in M/W Housing Units.
"Can Anyone Say - RETIREMENT"

Inmate dies in Three Rivers prison riot
Guillermo Contreras, Robert Crowe and Sara Inés Calderon
Express-News
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA032908.01A.PrisonRiot.3790e89.html
THREE RIVERS — A riot Friday morning that appeared to stem from ongoing tensions between rival prison gangs at a federal penitentiary here left one prisoner dead and 22 injured.

No employees were injured at the medium-security prison....

The violence erupted in two housing units located near each other. Each holds 150 inmates, and just one officer monitors those 300 inmates at a time, Wechsler said.

 

[Callme_CO]

Ok i have quiet a few peeves with the BOP right now and i don't think it will ever get better.

1) Some institutions have 1 staff member per 2 housing units on M/W and some even D/W

2) No weapons for the officers...Not even stab-resistant vest to wear. Higher ups state that it gives the message that we are hostle.

3) Any use of force seems almost frowned on. Now i will say excess is wrong but i work in a penn and you've gotta push sometimes to get through to some of these guys.

4) The lack of backbone from the higher ups. Unfortunately at the most i'll ever be is a 9-11 Lt. Becuase i will always have my spine.

5) Why does the region wanna run everything? Let the institutions run themselves.

6) When are we going to actually get some money, more staff, Better equipment?

Post if there's anything eating you up on the inside.

 

[Show-me]

I don't know how you guys do it. Not me! I would want AA-12 with #4 buck and 10 guys as back up on a catwalk and I would not go near the population.

Put shock collars on all inmates link to a transmitter on the gaurd. If you get 15 feet or closer to me, you go down from the shock collar. It would be the inmates responsibility to keep his or her proper distance from me. I still would want my defensive weapons.

 

[Show-me]

By the way thanks to all the BOP folks that keep the animals caged.

 

[Guest2]

Thanks Show, 2.5-6.5 years to go. Your collar system reminds me of
a movie, their heads got blown off. (LoL) I forget the name of it.

Call_me_CO, Correctional Workers First is dead. Just ask another Dept.
to man a unit during D/W and hear the screams from the top down.

167 i/m's per side, 334 in each unit, 1 officer opening their doors while
being locked in. Three Rivers kicked off at 7am the other day within 2
housing units. Piases & Azteca's are rumored to be the cause. Thank
goodness injuries to staff were avoided. 1 Dead & 22 seriously injured
on the other side of the tracks. (Oppps, mentioned below, sorry)

1 Officer counting "outside fence".
1 Lieutenat doing "new" search procedure "outside fence".
1 Officer left to run the joint and count in the housing unit.

"It's Beyond Reason" - Anyone have a 6 figure job to offer?

 

[Callme_CO]

Thanks Show, 2.5-6.5 years to go. Your collar system reminds me of
a movie, their heads got blown off. (LoL) I forget the name of it.

i remember that movie vaguely

 

[FUTURESTRADER]

John Travolta "Battlefield Earth"?

 

[Show-me]

View attachment 3635

Wedlock, aka Deadlock

 

[Guest2]

Thats the one I remember, a Rutger Hauer flick !
Thanks !

 

[Callme_CO]

I remember one scene RH character got into a fight with a big black prisioner and he ended up popping the collar open a bit. next thing you know two people were running for help and their heads exploded. That's the only scene that stuck with me.

 

[Gilligan]

OK,
Who is working and supposedly watching the inmates at USP Leavenworth Unicor? I just glanced at the GSA desk calendar and in the upper right hand corner there is a small January 2008 calendar. If you look closely you can see that there are two (2) 17ths in January but no 18th.:nuts:

 

[Callme_CO]

Hey that's good enough for government work.

 

[Guest2]

OK,
Who is working and supposedly watching the inmates at USP Leavenworth Unicor? I just glanced at the GSA desk calendar and in the upper right hand corner there is a small January 2008 calendar. If you look closely you can see that there are two (2) 17ths in January but no 18th.:nuts:

Go figure, that was my birthday ! I guess I'm a year younger then
I originally thought. Heeeey, put it back in ! That gives my yet another
year to do for the Bureau. Don't take my birthday away!
:nuts: