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| Federal prisons face cutbacks, layoffs |
| By Chicago Tribune |
| Published: 07/12/2004 |
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons began a 30-day hiring freeze last week and will have to lay off some of its 35,000 employees next year unless the agency finds other ways to avert a budget crunch, said its director, Harley Lappin. Lappin announced the freeze Friday in a memo to employees and disclosed the prospective layoffs last month in a letter to a federal employee leader. His agency has a $4.4 billion budget to operate 104 federal prisons. Layoffs could begin as soon as March and "could affect every employee and position," Lappin wrote on June 17. The prospective layoff could wipe out as many as 2,000 jobs, said Phil Glover, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Council of Prison Locals. Glover, whose union represents 20,000 of the agency's workers, said last week that the bureau had received only 91 percent of the necessary funding over the past three years. Employees were told the agency needs to trim $140 million this year and $300 million in 2005. |
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