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| ‘You don’t go to work to die’: Prison union calls for more staff and inmate penalties |
| By twincities.com- Mary Divine |
| Published: 09/26/2018 |
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Unions representing workers in Minnesota state prisons on Tuesday called for increased staffing and harsher penalties for inmates who assault staff members. The call followed an assault on a corrections officer at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights around noon on Monday. Corrections officer Joe Parise, 37, a four-year veteran of the Minnesota Department of Corrections, died of a medical emergency after responding to the attack. “You don’t go to work to die,” said Tim Henderson, associate director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 5. “I can confidently say that there is a correctional officer shortage in every one of our facilities. We are not at 100 percent.” Union leaders also asked for immediate implementation of the DOC’s proposed increased penalty for assaults on staff to 270 to 360 days in segregation; some offenders who have assaulted staff have served only 90 days, according to the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, which represents caseworkers, therapists and others in Minnesota’s correctional facilities. Read More. |
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