We have recently learned that TDCJ has now classified it's overtime situation at the Beeville McConnell unit as voluntary only. The Backgate covered the issue several times over the past few months where employees from several regions were mandated to travel long hours and work mandatory overtime on their regular days off. Some traveled up to 4 hours from their home units to make the trip, and many employees were disciplined for refusing to go. After what we believe to have been the media coverage and outside pressure, the TDCJ dropped the mandatory requirement and have been recruiting volunteers from all over the state. Whatever the case, it's a great thing for the employees and their safety.
To see those stories we covered over the past few months regarding McConnell and staffing woes there just type in key word "McConnell" in our search box.
I work at Mcconnell and they are still doing mandatory overtime. They are now making night shift work overtime on days. So maybe you should ask Huntsville again.
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ReplyDeleteIt depends of the definition of "Mandatory". I'm very confident our leadership wouldn't lie so you must be imagining working overtime.
Sorry its voluntold.
ReplyDeleteThe Price Daniel,Wallace,Ware, and Smith Units are close to 50% staffed and the Oilfield is starting most jobs with good salaries and better benefits than the State we will see these units on the News before long and it will not be good.
ReplyDeleteWorking mandatory 6 days on , 2 days off at the Daniel Unit. sometimes have to stay over 4 hours on next shift. officers getting burned out. offenders know we are understaffed. tensions high. getting bad.
ReplyDeleteSmith is mandatory. 6 on 2 off....ware unit closed...
ReplyDeleteYou guys are still mandatory working there. Story is that outsiders from other units are not being mandated to travel down there to work from their units anymore after the flack in the media. I'm sure those there will always be mandated. Until you pass out from exhaustion or quit.
ReplyDeleteI'm free just left TDCJ. Seven years being treated like a inmate. They take better care and beleave the offender. That was the worst place I ever worked. so much dirty stuff on nights. Inmates come out of their cells and party all night with their buddys. I wanted a warden to do a walk through at 3;00 am. See all the guards sleeping.
ReplyDeleteHeres the solution pay a lil more
ReplyDeleteHere is the solution....pay more, increase requirements, and quit hiring people who act more ignorant than offenders.
ReplyDeleteI agree tdcj for the last 5 yrs is hired a bunch of idiots that have no business in the prison system!
ReplyDeletesay they are mandatorying us at the pulunsky unit also and the upper admin. doesnt care about us ,they worry more about the offenders than they do us ..... in the summer time time they put out ice chest for the offenders so they can have cold water to drink , and they write us up if we dont let them have it .... but if we leave are pods for a water break we will get wrote up ..... but its funny the people thats written us up are setting in the air cond. offices either sleeping are watching tv
ReplyDeleteamen amen to all these comments, you have officers from far away that came to work these facilities to help out with shortages, but the STATE of TEXAS claims they were paying out too much in overtime so they would rather the units work SHORT and endanger officers more than they are already, then they wonder why they have corrupt officers cause the inmates play on it and tell them officers , see they care about us more than yall, which is most likely true. The only good solution to this bad problem is go back to the building tenders system and the prison try to revamp its hiring standards and pay so they will get quality people in there to work... every unit is as dirty as the mcconnell unit, trash officers everywhere I BLAME the STATE of TEXAS, they hired them. Back in the day we had height and weight reqirements, we had psychological exams, we had better medical insurance(which is BS now, we had inmates that mind, and we had officers who knew what loyalty was to being a gray suit.... WE DONT HAVE IT NO MORE, and all the old timers are surely fading away and gaining their retirements... SO CLEAN UP TEXAS PRISONS!!! get the crooks who sit behind the desk ignoring the corrupt out too... make them wardens and majors work some night shifts so they can see whats going on, on their units. when u have a officer to come tell you something thats going on STOP MAKING THEM LOOK LIKE A SNITCH, by telling others hey officer so and so told us this abt you...DO YOUR JOBS!!! while the FEDS are investigating TDCJ, go investigate the finance office you'll find your white and blue collar criminals there, it aint all the officers doing it, check the TDCJ books, go back a few years 10 - 15 and see what TDCJ been hiding all this time, IM JUST SAYING !!! the dirt is there LOOK for it... ok thats enough for now start your investigations. STOP PADDING THE BOOKS ALSO TDCJ OFFICIALS...
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