August 13, 2008
Pennsylvania: State Representative Frets Over Pen’s Staff
A recent visit to the U.S. Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg raised his concern for the well-being of prison workers, U.S. Rep. Chris Carney said, and reinforced his belief that the federal government needs to spend more to reduce the inmate-to-staff ratio.
"While state facilities like Texas, California, Florida and Michigan have staff inmate ratios at 3.33 to 1," Carney said in a statement, "the Federal Bureau of Prisons has a 4.92 to 1 ratio, the highest-ever during modern times and up from 3.57 to 1 a decade ago.
"The BoP would have to hire an additional 9,000 employees just to get back to the 3.57 level," said Carney, D-10 of Dimock. "Bureau facilities are currently 37 percent overcrowded, and at some facilities, that number is as high as 76 percent…"
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