That Director is a good politician. Saying a lot without saying something. As soon as she didn’t know how understaffed her department was I screamed red flag!

@S.Pri8

3 ай бұрын

And here I am watching this and thinking is it ME that's recognizing the bs of words she's using of saying something while NOT saying ANYTHING, ANYTHING AT ALL, at the same time!??!!! Thank you for making your comment❤

@DailyViralVideoz

3 ай бұрын

She is the 6th crook in 6 years to try to sweep the accountability under the jail 😢🤯 You would be a fool to buy any of the snake oil she is selling the media!!

@snowwilliams1

3 ай бұрын

Thats exactly what i thought, “shes a good politician”

@justinfitch4851

3 ай бұрын

I agree 💯💯

@MichelleSocha

3 ай бұрын

I agree 100%. She has an answer for EVERYTHING!! I liked the 60 Minutes reporter who kept her on point!!

I'm glad Cecilia Vega didn't stop asking tough questions. You can tell the warden interviewed has had media training.

@ryebaldy8479

2 ай бұрын

Of course, she is employed by the Federal Government! They learn the art of doublespeak. Especially the BOP. There prisons are literally falling apart, foundations cracking, consistently understaffed, some very violent like Hazelton FCI, and they just want to keep it all swept under the rug and hush hush.

@Claudettes-qf5dt

Күн бұрын

I believed every word the inmates said, it was all staged. The Director is useless!!!

She’s good at speaking without saying anything

@mch12311969

3 ай бұрын

Indeed

@jenniferclark9170

3 ай бұрын

She sounds a lot like Kamala.

@yagga8885

3 ай бұрын

This, especially staffing numbers, is clearly a longstanding problem with no quick or easy solutions. Not sure what you want hear. A false sense of security?

@erikcampen3246

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely disastrous interview by this “mouthpiece”. She won’t make it a year.

@tioswift3676

3 ай бұрын

@@erikcampen3246Dude we get it. No need to post the same thing 20 times

As soon as she couldnt or wouldnt provide the # of guards needed to fully staff the prison, I knew, she's a future politician......

@yagga8885

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, that was very odd

@sharonbowles3531

3 ай бұрын

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@cleny217

3 ай бұрын

I can say we need 1,000s more to properly staff these prisons for our staffing needs. We are understaffed and most prisons have been operating at emergency staffing capacity. Basically they reduced the staff requirements for each shift so they can say we are not understaffed. So even if we got those positions filled we would still be only filling the holes to be staffed at emergency capacity.

@spaceman081447

3 ай бұрын

Well, she is a bureaucrat --- no different from a politician, really.

@S.Pri8

3 ай бұрын

🎯

"When anyone comes to your house, you clean it up"- True, but there's a difference when human lives are involved.

@amari_20000

3 ай бұрын

She literally told on herself

@MajICReiki

3 ай бұрын

For 2 years she can't count? And how is that improving the 40% deficit of staff?

@S.Pri8

3 ай бұрын

@@MajICReiki😂not "for 2 years she can't count" Welp look like she just added another year to that. She still working on counting🚮

@MrNetAble

3 ай бұрын

Some victims may disagree with you.

@user-sc9lr6kz8t

3 ай бұрын

You clean it up, you don't hide the messes.

How does one prepare for an interview of this caliber and not know how many officers you are short ?

@thetruthhurts131

3 ай бұрын

She was asked the same question in front of a panel about 4 months ago and said the same thing.

@Lena-so2lq

2 ай бұрын

Botox, new suit, apparently. 😂

@karengraham4739

Ай бұрын

@@Lena-so2lq🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ive retired 26 years at CDCR officer. This Warden is a politician....ive been through 6 horrible wardens. When the Warden and crew is weak the whole prison system is chaotic....those officers who are sexual assaulting the inmates should do 20 years in prison. Biggest betrayal and shame.

@JENKEN425

9 күн бұрын

AGREE. 20 YEARS NO PAROLE.

The reporter is really good. Her questions are very sound and candid.

6 directors in 6 years, and the current director is a master of political double speak… Expect that her name appearing on a ballot paper somewhere.

@kimberlyenglehardt5770

3 ай бұрын

Sad but probably true. Prison reform is a true need. But I think investing in education and children is where it needs to begin.

@hu_b

3 ай бұрын

She has nothing to do with 6 directors. The other five served under the trump mal-administration, the last one resigned in disgrace.

@chakastyles8794

3 ай бұрын

@sandgroper1970 I was thinking the same thing. She is in protective mode, I don’t believe anything she says…

@ryebaldy8479

2 ай бұрын

​@@kimberlyenglehardt5770hell yeah, get to them before they go to prison!

@ryebaldy8479

2 ай бұрын

​@chakastyles8794 Especially of all the Federal agencies, the BOP are the biggest liars and cover up artists. Dude just got murdered over at Hazelton FCI, and they won't say a word about it because it's 'under investigation.' After the heat wears off, they still never release a damn bit of information. It only gets out because the inmates find out and tell their families or a whistle blower goes to the media and they are so scared of losing their job they don't even reveal their identity.

She sounds like a typical bureaucrat.

@carlaperkins655

2 ай бұрын

Because she is

Spoken like a true politician 🤢

I spent over 3 years in aliceville it was awful except for the education dept it was the only place that I felt safe got my GED while there thanks to mr.williams and Mr harris

@charlespatrick8650

3 ай бұрын

I wish there was a Federal living wage paying job guarantee available for everyone who is healthy enough to work, and not busy work, but productive jobs in every sector of the job market, so the jobs aren't repetitive hell type jobs that burn people out

@esils

3 ай бұрын

Inmates did say it was staged 6:31 but isn’t jail suppose to be “awful”?!?! There need to be some level of deterrence 🤔

@rasul407

3 ай бұрын

Tell us more about your life after prison. Did you get a job? How’s it going for you

@TheMapman01

3 ай бұрын

How did you decide on that randomly generated looking user neme?

@GetsumJ

3 ай бұрын

Not sure what crime you were convicted of but I would be interested as to how safe your victims felt while you were committing the crime.

My mom has been in Aliceville for almost a year. There have been 3 deaths, 2 stabbings and MULTIPLE fights with severe injuries. And none reported. The treatment is awful and this interview makes me believe it even more.

@danacarter9147

3 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry about your mom. 😔

@MonkeyDelicious

2 ай бұрын

Don't commit crimes and you won't be in prison.

@Lena-so2lq

2 ай бұрын

​@@MonkeyDeliciousignorance.

@SuzyQVeganBeauty

2 ай бұрын

I was there when it first opened it was 100 of us

@tysizemore9150

2 ай бұрын

I was there in 2015 to 2016 before going to Carswell. I was there when the tornado hit. This place is horrible. Forget about medical! Prayers for your mom.

It’s good to see real investigative reporting happening from a legacy program like this.

@mikeypiros6647

3 ай бұрын

LEFTIST PROPAGANDA AT ITS BEST ...

@brijetmary5295

3 ай бұрын

True

@iamgabriel5823

3 ай бұрын

You're kidding, right? This was a total candy coated whitewash.

@BiffJohnsonIII

3 ай бұрын

bot detected

@s4gviews

3 ай бұрын

@@BiffJohnsonIII now Biff, tsk tsk.

It's not her job to apologize? How hard would it be to say on behalf of the Department of Corrections we're sorry, we let you down and failed to protect you. She needs to be fired.

@atrailmckinley4786

3 ай бұрын

I agree

@acdc123456781

3 ай бұрын

I mean 6 directors in 6 years the BOP is bad but give her a chance to do better first

@atrailmckinley4786

3 ай бұрын

@acdc123456781 She didn't even know how many officers they need to be fully functional. She sounds like a politician and should be fired

@hockymanna6459

3 ай бұрын

What is BOP

@RILEYLEIFSON_UTAH

3 ай бұрын

​@@hockymanna6459 Bureau Of Prisons.

The inmates sound better than the bureaucrat.

I worked as a Prison Officer for 15 years in the UK 🇬🇧. As she said, people walk by the prison not even knowing it’s there.

Why would it take 2 years to figure out staff numbers? Up your staff from day 1 and tweak as you go.

"They're short staffed all the time." Direct quote from an inmate who has no idea how to manage a prison, let alone an entire Bureau of Prisons, but she sees and experiences it on a daily basis. The non-answer Director can't even tell you, after 2 years, how many staff the Bureau needs to operate her facilities. She been before congress on more than one occasion and can almost NEVER give a straight answer. They chose her for this roll precisely because of her lack of integrity and the ability to politician her way through any interview or hearing. She really is a master of her craft at the expense of her subordinates. Who chose the appointee that chose her again?

She's an unelected politician... embarrassing.

She doesn’t give a lot of confidence and seems to be just collecting a check.

@S.Pri8

3 ай бұрын

She's filling one of those emergency spots that's why. I was reading another comment that stated "she hadn't been able to count in 2yrs." Reason she didn't provide the number of job vacancies. She probably know. She just wanted to give political correct answers🚮

@tracyjames2046

3 ай бұрын

Being in charge of keeping human beings locked away ain’t a job I would feel proud of. It does take a certain type to do corrections and remain human yourself. My hat is off to the thousands who do a good job at it.

@butameremortal9424

2 ай бұрын

Like most working in "the system". It's an easy check. Who is gonna complain 🤷‍♀️ no one cares when "they" do !

@joelm4847

2 ай бұрын

@@butameremortal9424but it’s selling your soul to hell more often than not

A female friend of mine went to prison in Colorado and it was horrible. I will not give details. Our justice system is beyond broken. Great job 60 minutes.

@mollypitcher9380

2 ай бұрын

Why not ?

Anytime I have a rough day at work I just watch one of these episodes and thank god I’m not in prison. It looks like hell on earth.

@chrisbgood2359

2 ай бұрын

Most of us abide by the law so we dont have to.

@DiaryOfaCell

2 ай бұрын

@@chrisbgood2359 your reading comprehension is that of a third grader. Your reply has no relevance on what I commented.

@sarahlynn7894

2 ай бұрын

I understood what chrisbgood2359 was saying. His comprehension skills are just fine and I believe it has much relevance. Maybe you should reread what you wrote.

@nicholasselke5214

2 ай бұрын

People who have never been in prison don’t need to “thank god” that they aren’t in prison. Their choice to not break the law is what ensures they don’t go. I never thank a higher power that supposedly exists that I have never been to prison. I just don’t commit crimes

@Sarah-said

Ай бұрын

The lack of compassion and empathy in the comments is awful. The level of undeserved self superiority and ego is sicking.

Prisoner volunteer here, was optimistic to see this. She is a good speaker and seems compassionate, however it is disturbing that she did not know … even an estimate, for fully staffing the institution. That is CORE to her job and in my view a huge red flag.

Thank you for providing a window into prison system problems.

The way she says "Productive, TAX PAYING citizens." We are cattle to her.

@hu_b

3 ай бұрын

Right so we're no longer paying to support them whether it's in prison or public housing.

@charlesburkard3289

3 ай бұрын

Exactly my thoughts.

@UnCannyValley67

3 ай бұрын

Somebody’s gotta foot the bill for your entitlements ! Now, pay your damn taxes!

@chadbailey189

3 ай бұрын

as soon as these women realize you loss half your pay check a week to taxes, they go back to old ways

@Lena-so2lq

2 ай бұрын

I heard it

I grew up in OYA under Peters. The staff under her authority were vicious, cruel people. Compassion isn't a word she should use.

@Buttersausage

3 ай бұрын

Can you tell us some stuff youve seen?

@ahnraemenkhera7451

3 ай бұрын

@jjpurcell2845. I’m sorry for your YA experiences, but I hope you can say they were formative & informative for you in a manner that you can be thankful not to re-live! I KNOW I’ve seen this same director interviewed elsewhere, on another documentary! Not so smoothly adroit with answers before, though! I wonder myself sometimes who feeds sharks the nifty vocabulary words I know they didn’t gravitate toward on their own-because they’d have an indicting effect on their own narc tendencies!! I don’t doubt the penal colonial aspects of incarceration. I hope you’ve recovered and have found purpose, decent people to bide along with, & better options for yourself, for your own family’s sake. It’s no accident that such people find employment in s godless, soulless vocation today. IF (& when) the society reaches critical-mass on living in medieval conditions & constructs that it finds “romantic” somehow, currently, all of the penal institutions will be re-formed or abolished altogether as failed experiments. Asylums & sanitariums did. The Bastille did. I suspect they only still exist to give emotional elevation to psycho/sociopaths who run them & reap the profits from them. Of course, corporate entities profit, too. It’s a greasy pole. I don’t remember which documentary featured this director but it can be found on YT for anyone looking. Stay well, Stay Blessed, & enjoy inner-PEACE. ❄️🪷🕯⚖️🌸🪷❄️

@monicadonnelly4991

3 ай бұрын

Compassion? For scumbags?

@jjpurcell8264

3 ай бұрын

@@Buttersausagecops take people in the back where there's no cameras and do whatever. They have their own little gang and if they don't like the way you behaved they will handcuff you and take you to a room with no cameras and beat you. I seen it in Oregon youth authority under Colette Peters and I seen it in Oregon department of corrections under her.

@GaiaCarney

2 ай бұрын

@@jjpurcell8264 I believe you 😔 Oregon has a terrible history of corruption amongst ‘law enforcement’

People are getting raped and murdered. And the Director of prison says: She refuses to apologize and says she’s doing a tremendous job. That’s all you need to know about the PIC

@MrNetAble

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, think about that before you up to no good.

@user-ib1zg2ec7f

3 ай бұрын

Very naive comment. There are 43 rape lawsuits right in now in BOP. She will no comment during ongoing lawsuits, that's common legal strategy. Obviously, you've never been sued, your comment basically admits that fact.

Anger Management is the most important skill of all.

@christinefleming8435

2 ай бұрын

They should have taken those classes before they got in prison

@Lena-so2lq

2 ай бұрын

​@@christinefleming8435talking about guards

New fan of Cecilia. Great way to be so tenacious and keeping your foot on her neck 😁 She didn't let her run from the questions. You was her boss when questioning her. I know she hated that

That Director talks like a seasoned politician.

I can say as somebody who did 20 years and retired a couple years ago, that there are a lot of things that need to be reformed within this agency.

@lettjones9990

3 ай бұрын

Well as a voice within “the agency “ was there nothing that you could’ve done to assist with the reforming? Nothing you could’ve said? Spoke up about? As a former occupant of this prison, I can speak on the mistreatment that these women endure.

This lady is getting on my nerves. She can't just say that allegations will be looked into, when those who make the allegations will be silenced. It just drives me insane.

@SteveJobIess

3 ай бұрын

Sure

@LightSkinBadiee

27 күн бұрын

​@@SteveJobIess😂

Former BOP HRM here, I can't tell you how many times funding got cut and we had to rescind job offers after going through the lengthy hiring process. Then to turn around for another round of recruiting/hiring. Very disheartening and frustrating, for HR staff along with line staff who need help. Never cuts at the regional or central office levels though...

@zeroyou3060

3 ай бұрын

I know all too well. Backwards On Purpose. Always reactive rather than proactive.

I always pick up hitch hikers near the prison.

Thanks for the wonderful producing Natalie ❤

"I don't know if it's my job to appologize to the inmates.." 🤯😪 What a cold, callous, heartless statement!! What she meant to say through this interview is that it is her job to control the narrative and work tirelessly to create no accountability on paper for her staff and administration.. Everything we seen as viewers was staged, it's called the "dog and pony show" where your instructed to smile and say the least amount possible or else! Iykyk 👀🗣️

They are Officers, not guards. It's like calling a college professor a teacher or a staffer or like calling a doctor a nurse or a medical helper. Please respect others by using their correct career titles.

I used to work with a former womens' prison guard. He told me about some of this. It's horrific. But the trash flows both ways. He talked about inmate manipulation of guards; vendettas against guards that turned into false accusations; inmate civil wars that pitted guard against guard...it was like a mini world in there, complete with politics and organized crime. Plus the outside influence, as many inmates have criminal connections outside the walls. But he also emphasized the cliques within the guard force itself. How protection of one and sacrifice of another was as common as clocking in for your shift.

@russellbrown1068

3 ай бұрын

Don’t wanna go to Prison? Obey the Fricking Law!

@cessaly100

3 ай бұрын

Terrible!

@cecilehouston9484

3 ай бұрын

Prison is horrible!

@Lena-so2lq

2 ай бұрын

​@@russellbrown1068they are talking about the guards too! Foolish

@etherashe5164

Ай бұрын

I have a buddy who worked as a guard at San Quinton for years. He told me that the staff - his peers - were more difficult and treacherous to deal with than the inmates (in general).

Working at a prison is never sought out and will always be this way. Government doesn’t give enough funding for a livable wage.

@Cabledeluz1977

3 ай бұрын

This is why we should never depend on the government for anything, including welfare, healthcare, education etc. We have the best example of how the government has funded a society, including healthcare, welfare, education, monthly stipend, etc. Native Americans. Its terrible!

@shevyman6430

3 ай бұрын

I no a lady that a prison nurse at Julia tuckwyler prison here in Alabama and she makes $32 hr. That good money in Alabama. This was a one sided story to try make victims out of women

@charlespatrick8650

3 ай бұрын

they can't compete with police department pay

@JJ-land

3 ай бұрын

@@charlespatrick8650 Great point

@JJ-land

3 ай бұрын

@@shevyman6430 Agree…it definitely depends on where these jobs are located. Where I am, that would be hard to afford rent for a one bedroom; it’s probably not possible as I think about it.

“ and when anybody comes to your house you clean it up” 😂😂😂😂😂 interview over, we know alll that’s needed

@MakerInMotion

2 ай бұрын

It's the same thing Gavin Newsom said when the President of China came to San Francisco and they cleared out the tents and piles of feces for the first time in years.

Great report Cecilia

The director just talking and not saying a damn thing lol

I give this woman credit for her intentions. But I have never seen anyone dodge questions better than she did in this interview.

And a lot of innocent people are also in Federal prisons too. They don't turn them out even when a person is ordered to be released.

He was training people to pray on weekends. She will never know what goes on because prison office just like police officers cover up for others all the time.

@CR500R

3 ай бұрын

Tess is no hero or "Whistle Blower"... I worked with her. She was having an affair with the former Warden. When he got caught up, she is now embarrassed and doing everything in her power to do damage control in hopes that she's not discovered. It's true what they say about throwing stones in a glass house... she ruined her own marriage to be with a Warden who was sleeping with inmates behind her back! 😅

My cousin Bob (RIP) taught English to prison inmates in Indiana. He had an interesting perspective on it. I produced an local NPR affiliate program for KWSU in 1972 where we interviewed the Chicano inmates at Walla Walla State prison; the host of the program was a young media student who eventually got his PhD.

The real issue is Judges sentencing extensive prison terms, knowing the system is flawed. Non violent crimes need more alternatives. It's all a money grab.

Disappointing that 60 Minutes didn't grill the Director harder, nor comment on the barbaric 'For Profit' prison industry which exists in the US.

@SolDrivn

2 ай бұрын

The “for profit” are private, contract facilities primarily.

@bobanderson6656

Ай бұрын

Changing the subject, are you? The story was about FEDERAL PRISONS, misconduct and incompetence of FEDERAL EMPLOYEES. Without private contract facilities, the prison systems in the US would be worse. Most of the inmates held are convicted in state court.

8 billion bucks to oversee 157,000 inmates works out to over 50,000 spent per inmate. (And don’t forget they make a mint off of subminimum wages.)

@user-is6de8pp7k

3 ай бұрын

It’s disgusting.

I watched this for 4 minutes and lost 1/3 of my braincells.

@fodetoure1576

3 ай бұрын

So you have 2 left? 😂

@richardmesser1091

Ай бұрын

Now your down to four

@Goshjij

Ай бұрын

@@fodetoure1576 🤣🤣🤣 actually funny

_"Many people in your custody are there because of _*_horrific_*_ crimes, why do they deserve compassion?"_ _"Because 95% of them are gonna come back to our community someday...'_ And THEREIN lies the PROBLEM.

I tried to get into corrections in AZ and was asked to reapply in one year because I was honest with my drug history. The irony being that history will never change. The whole system is a mess.

@bigdc202

3 ай бұрын

They don't hire drug addicts.

@Look_What_You_Did

3 ай бұрын

How long ago did you apply? How long ago was your "drug history"?

@user-jn9gv9ve6e

3 ай бұрын

i worked in a prison. you should never work in one. no dopers wanted.

@jackeroo75

3 ай бұрын

Honesty doesn’t get a you anywhere. You are best try to beat the lie detector.

@mikimiyazaki

3 ай бұрын

​@@Look_What_You_Didcrack 2 weeks ago, meth a week after that and a speed ball 3 days after. So hes a prime candidate IMHO.

My dad was the Warden at Texarkana FCI in the early seventies. My family followed him from Terre Haute to Leavenworth to The DC Bureau to Morgantown Youth Center to Texarkana… we grew up around federal felons.

@user-el9th6sj8f

3 ай бұрын

Did you hear about Tommy Silverstein in Leavenworth? The most isolated inmate

@jamaica1551

3 ай бұрын

Wow..im a current CO..I heard alot about terre haute

I used to work for the FBOp at rhe CAPS program. This documentary is so true..

My thoughts on her interaction with a young boy with a knife 🔪 were Instant red flags. She wanted to help him...1. a quick emotional statement! etc etc etc.

Being a corection officer is the most dangerous and underpaid job there is! 🙏🐶💯👍🏼

@thegreencouchshow4029

3 ай бұрын

Not mentioning the unpredictable environment dealing with people and staffing under immense pressure and stress

@ralphyralphy

3 ай бұрын

@@thegreencouchshow4029 💯

I worked in state prison system for 4 years and the officers that are there are over worked doing extra days and not having a much time off. There is always officers that just hang out with the higher ups while other officers are made to pick slack up so it makes you not want to show up when your not appreciated and always made to do someone else's work while they relax cause they are buddies with a sgt or Lt

@southernillinois

3 ай бұрын

I worked 28 years as a correctional officer before retiring in 2012. You hit the nail on the head with your explanation of how things work in the joint.

@mollypitcher9380

2 ай бұрын

I believe it and I bet you can’t complain to anyone to fix it.

I'm so glad people are seeing through her bull crap. Also, they are officers, NOT security guards. They interact with the same detainees that the street cop do. Yet inside the prisons & and jails, they are disrespected, stripped of their titles called guards. I am so shocked that they are now allowing civilian staff to play the role of Correction Officers after they gutted the Correction Officers staff & budget starting 1998 while packing & adding financial money to police budget & departments nationwide. This practice has to stop, and the nationwide has to be aware of how jobs are being funneled to a selected few of people in all industries. In addition, this modern-day type of enslavement has to be stopped. The people behind bars are someone's mother, daughters, son father,uncle, friend, aunt, niece, nephew. Where is our humanity. 😢

“Human behavior can’t be predicted.” Yes…. It can? Not with perfect accuracy. But there are warning signs when it comes to dangerous, predatory, violent behavior on part of guards etc. It’s just they choose to ignore them because of the financial cost

"We need to send fewer people to prison for shorter periods of time." Sounds like she already decided on the sentence before hearing the crime.

@gen-X-trader

3 ай бұрын

It has gotten absolutely ridiculous. Al Capone got 11 years. Think about what that guy did. Today they hand out a sentence like that for a whole variety of things. If anything more people need to go to jail for a shorter period of time. What I'm saying is no more 10 and 20 years sentences for things where people aren't dead but a lot more 1 to 3 month sentences for people ripping off stores, destroying properties etc etc

@ryanthompson591

3 ай бұрын

Sure. A victimless drug crime. Let's make that one less.

@billytheweasel

3 ай бұрын

"Sounds like she already decided on the sentence before hearing the crime" Yep, she dodges like a bureaucrat. BUT! I'd hope someone in that position would have thought through general issues like that. Hearing Specific crimes are for AG's and judges.

@heyaisdabomb

3 ай бұрын

@@gen-X-trader The problem is 1 to 3 months doesn't change anyone. They get out, they do it again and again and again. If you want to fix the problem, give them 2 years with a mandatory college program. I believe 100% in providing services in prison for people to better themselves, but I don't think 1 to 3 months fixes anything. We can both agree prison by itself does nothing to solve crime. So if you can't learn new skills and change your lifestyle in 1 to 3 months, why even send them to prison at all? If a women is raped (not killed), is 3 months enough for the life time of trauma that women will live through? Countries who are the toughest on crimes have the lowest crime rates. Can you really say tough on crime is not effective?

@gen-X-trader

3 ай бұрын

@@heyaisdabomb I agree. The one two three months is people ripping off stores, doing property damage. Hooligan stuff. If you're dealing drugs, I don't just mean giving your buddy a pill, I mean like quantity. Hurting people, yeah years makes sense. A lot of first time offenders I have worked with though. They lacked structure. They weren't evil people. They were just careless. they didn't learn how to behave in the world. Bringing the construction programs back to prison. Great idea. College classes, great idea. Making sure first time offenders are only time offenders. Great idea. Not giving people 10 years plus on crimes where you don't have dead bodies. Also a great idea. Too many 18 to 25-year-old kids get caught up in drugs, teen girls or some type of thievery. Setting them up with life breaking consequences. None of us benefit from that. I think another way to say it, is basically regardless of what you've done, there should be some type of way out. Some way to redeem yourself. Think of all that tax revenue the government can make. Think of all the families the ones suffer because that one person who caught a crime 10 years ago could actually move on with his life. not just work the worst jobs. I'm all for making people prove it, but give them the ability to do so

The director is giving Figueroa from OITNB

I’m a correctional officer in Texas and we’re severely understaffed and underpaid compared to the national average. However, our pay for not needing anything past a high school diploma or GED should be considered very good especially when you factor in all the other benefits provided. We also can get a fair amount of overtime. They just cut our overtime from 7.75 hours per day to 3.25 hours per day, but it’s still good. One officer was able to make $165,000 last year working 8 days in a nine days cycle of 16 hour days. That’s not what most normally do because of being so tired at the end of the day, but it’s possible to make good money. In my department we have turned out 2 regular workers when we needed a minimum of 15 because we were so short. We did have some overtimers working so it helped, but we were still very short. If anyone wants a decent pay and benefits package please relocate to Texas and come work for Texas Department of Criminal Justice. I would love to welcome you. You get paid training and very cheap housing in a dorm setting if needed.

@AyannaMayfield

3 ай бұрын

U forgot to mention that there’s no climate control in the prison so in the summertime the dorms can get up to 120°. The fact that you want me to work eight hour days with no AC is not a good job.

@cathywnukoski5843

3 ай бұрын

Federal bureau of prisons pays a lot more and very probably has better benefits.

@jinkyscooby1973

3 ай бұрын

@@cathywnukoski5843 I understand, but there’s not a unit close enough to me to justify the drive.

@jinkyscooby1973

3 ай бұрын

@@AyannaMayfield I guess I’m so conditioned to the heat that it’s not too much of an issue for me.

@juniorfletcher8256

3 ай бұрын

​@@jinkyscooby1973heyy how is it for someone from another country thinking of working there?I am from the Caribbean and would like to migrate.Prison work here is HIGHLY sought after and pays really really well but it is amongst the most dangerous jobs too

Wow! That BOP Director is a politician! She has no ability to answer questions directly, rather than to deflect and dance around them.

$1.50/hr to make products... sounds like recidivism would be beneficial to keep that low costing labor... hmm...

good doc 💎💎

I was in federal prison for 2 years. Its disgusting, shameful and heartbreaking. I served this country and then was locked up by this country. America is not what you think it is.

Prayers for them All.❤

By apologizing the bureau of prisons would be admitting guilt….why would she want to loose the lawsuit?

That director is full of it. She’s not going to help anybody at all, there is a lack of transparency and compassion that seeps out of her

Interesting segment. Thanks for the great reporting.

Love 60 minutes!

Just last month I was released from federal prison in Thomson IL. Evil hell. These ppl are odious.

@nickynepos3131

3 ай бұрын

why were u incarcerated

@barano9729

3 ай бұрын

You’ll be back.

@MonkeyDelicious

2 ай бұрын

Don't commit crimes and no prison.

@interabang

2 ай бұрын

Were you innocent ?

Inmates should not be paid a wage for any work they do since the public is paying for them to be housed and fed.

Great interview from Natalie and the director stating she does not know if her job warrants an apology is crazy. People are in these roles should be held with accountability too.

The Prison System Inc. is becoming the new Healthcare System LLC.

The cost for American taxpayers is 8 billion dollars... inmates who work get $1.50 per hour, there is a 40% reduction in staff...all that being said where is 8 billion dollars going to and why are Americans on the hook for that money? The government should be footing the bill because I can guarantee that if they were, there would be reform after reform acts coming out of government.

@gen-X-trader

3 ай бұрын

Private prisons are some of it. The cost to operate is another part, we keep building more and more prisons because the sentences are so severe that people are doing years and years. If you want to get the best bang for your buck, you have shorter sentences that are more intensive, more rehabilitative and fewer prisons. It's going to require society standing up and saying this to make any kind of change. The old Boomer mentality of lock them up forever is not only ineffective, it's draconian and sadistic

@bitcoinconstitutionalist9252

3 ай бұрын

When "the government" pays a bill, it's the taxpayers who are paying it, superbrain.

@jordyb57

3 ай бұрын

Imagine how expensive it would to have a child in daycare 24/7 for a year….. now imagine that child is a violent adult lol. It’s gonna cost a lot.

@troybrooks2066

3 ай бұрын

When the government pays, it is coming from tax dollars. What are you talking about?! 🤣🤣

@troybrooks2066

3 ай бұрын

When the government pays, it is coming from tax dollars. What are you talking about?! 🤣🤣

If they cannot staff the Federal prisons with an $8 billion dollar budget... maybe they need to trim the fat.

Ive drove by this prison many times going to the war museum and coke factory museum. Interesting to see a up close look at it for the first time.

It's people like this that run and ruin the prison system when good Correction Officers attempt to do the right thing. She is a part of the problem. It's so sad and heartbreaking to see these women taken advantage of and enslaved with this evil villain at the head pretending to help.😢

@actionpotential23

3 ай бұрын

Enslaved???? Are you insane???

Oh I believe the inmates

@TopFix

3 ай бұрын

Yes because we should at face value believe everything convicted felons say. They're just the most honest and upstanding people with the most credible reputations.

Augmentation happens when training is going on at the prisons or allotment of so many a year. Gotta pay us more to retain and get people to want to join the BOP. Giving new hires a sign on bonus but can’t give staff who stay an incentive? The way in house jobs are going to people on the street so anyone in custody won’t be able to get them because they don’t want to lose anymore people in custody. How’s that fair to the person wanting to make more money for there family? Taking money away from them is how I see it. I work for the BOP and I like my job. Fixing an institution starts from the top and comes down and morale is a big thing. Some prisons in the BOP do have trouble staffing an institution when the location they put them and type of facility it is. Also if a Convict/ Inmate wants to change for the better they will, but some don’t. You can try helping with programs or trade job type of program. The thing is some rather be locked up then free because that’s all they know. The state I live in the C/O will make 92,000 a year based on salary with NO Overtime. Lots of people are going to the state then the feds. You top out quicker as an officer for the state than the feds. I hope to be out of custody one day cause that’s my goal.

@jessicagonzales354

3 ай бұрын

Louder for those in the back.

@zeroyou3060

3 ай бұрын

Good for you. Custody ain’t no joke. Get out asap.

Am a former Federal Inmate.... go back amd check if they are in the shu.... I PROMISE u if they aren't, it's because they know you were coming. I knew 2 of the women that sat in the small groups you interviewed.... they are telling the truth. It's being cleaned up and we don't have a voice except once a year when the group of people come and check out the prisons once a year. They tel us we can let them know anything but when we try and speak to some of them the COs and Warden stand there and make it uncomfortable and or impossible to speak freely about what's happening. They lie lie lie and they DO punish you for speaking up. Everytime

To reduce recidivism, increase reentry to society programs. Make available to them housing, training, jobs. Not everyone can be rehabilitated, but most people want to be productive members of society. It cost less to spend some money on the front end than it cost to clean up the mess if left unattended.

They need to fire her!

First and foremost, prison's are a place to house criminals and they must be efficiently staffed, as well as, cleaned and safe. A distance second is to rehabilitate prisoners with education, therapy and getting paid for doing jobs (i.e. sewing). If you can't execute the first order, then the 2nd order is moot until you can get enough CO's as well as, making sure the prison is clean and has no safety hazards.

@margaritoamargo6347

3 ай бұрын

Effective rehabilitation is the only way prisoners will change and stop re-offending. The other option is to help in communities that are struggling. But both of those are something the conservatives could care less about and wouldn't allow the government to do.

@crystalfowler2336

3 ай бұрын

Prisoners being safe is a big part, women and men shouldn’t have to worried about being sexually assaulted especially by prison officials whom they should trust 😢

If these are that bad, imagine what the ones run for profit are like. Hell on earth I’d wager. Most countries in Europe practice more kind and caring rehabilitation efforts and the data shows it helps lower recidivism

I worked adult corrections for 6 months, I just was not "wound tight enough" to deal with the job. Went to juvenile corrections and worked 5 years, there was a sense of hope in that environment that you could not feel in the adult system.

They give 10-25% retention bonuses to everyone except the officers. That’s why they can’t staff the prisons.

this woman is a politician. i worked in a michigan prison. lots of female guards were having relationships with the male prisoners.

@ilovemytribe

2 ай бұрын

Wow, I wonder what happens when the guards get pregnant??

Impressed by Ms. Vega's reporting and pursuit of hard truths despite the Director's inability to provide answers of substance to many of her questions. Clearly the Director of Prisons is in that role solely because of her ability to be evasive when confronted with the uncomfortable facts- her organization is failing to adequately protect the people they have legal custody of.

It was me in kindergarten with the knife

all students should be required to go to a prison on a field trip. I took an optional criminal justice course in HS and we went to the regular prison and the maximum security.

@correctionalofficer4lockdo763

3 ай бұрын

Speak for yourself! My 12 year son is in the 7th grade and pulling As & Bs with a high GPA. He doesn't need to be exposed to any jail/prison for any purpose whatsoever! You can take your child to visit a jail/prison. I will choose otherwise!

@zachbills8112

3 ай бұрын

​@@correctionalofficer4lockdo763I don't think he's advocating for a scared straight situation where the students are treated as defective. I went on a field trip to the county jail for a high school class on criminal law. It was an interesting experience and sheriff's deputy who escorted us was pretty cool.

"It is heartbreaking and horrendous to have something like that (sexual abuse) happen when you are proud of your profession as a corrections professional." Wait. It's not heartbreaking and horrendous to be a prisoner with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide being sexually abused. What's really heartbreaking and horrendous is that it wounds the warden's professional pride. Narcissistic much? That's like a school superintendent saying its a really bad look for his job resume when a lot of high school graduates in his district can't read. Poor me! I look bad because this prisoner got raped!ü

Wow is that director pompous as hell. Entitled attitude to the hilt

I spent 6 months in this prison camp. It was awful when i was there a tornado hit the prison. And the women going to school for ged at the camp had being waiting to take test for years before i got there

@tysizemore9150

2 ай бұрын

I was there too, but behind the fence. That time was awful! I remember it like yesterday.

@Amanda-iw5po

2 ай бұрын

Me too. Think about it on every groundhog day and Thank God we made it without anyone getting hurt. How they treated the ladies that was in the prison was awful.

I wonder how many of these augmented civilian staff that are playing corrections officers have been named in the Dublin lawsuits.

@CR500R

3 ай бұрын

Over 60 staff so far.

You can predict human behavior

60 Minutes did a good job reporting and invesigating this story. Those numbers talk for themselves, and the woman in charge make everything as sweet as apple pie. I hope that in the future, 60 Minutes can dig deeper. A question like, "So things are going well, so why dont we make you an inmate for a week?" All those alligations cause serious trauma for these women.

Good interview.