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Union workers picket at prison
By Radio Iowa
Published: 08/30/2006

ANAMOSA, IA - Picketers patrolled outside the state prison in Anamosa on Tuesday afternoon. Off-duty prison workers protested what they say are unsafe working conditions, claiming half the needed staff is there to handle the inmate population. Jillian Failee lives across the street from the prison with her two young daughters.

Failee says "I would have had no idea that they were short-staffed so it is a little scary actually to hear that."

A security officer at Anamosa had to be hospitalized earlier this month after being attacked by an inmate, an incident picketers blame on inadequate staffing...Read more.

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