Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Judge decides watching inmates is not harassment!

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  This is an interesting news story. An inmate filed a restraining order against a CO! The judge decided that saying to an inmate, "I...
Monday, June 27, 2022

RIP Dan Schooley

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  I'm sad to pass on that Dan Schooley has passed away. He was a long time "coach" at the Hennepin County Jail and became a D...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Inmate sentenced to death for murdering two correctional officers

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A Georgia inmate slipped out of his cuffs during a transport in 2017. He subsequently got into the front of the bus, disarmed a CO and shot ...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

Hennepin County Workhouse inmate survey

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From Alpha News-   " An internal survey given to inmates at the Hennepin County Adult Corrections Facility refers to them as “residents...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Pennington County CO's assaulted during attempted escape

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This WCCO story outlines how things can go from routine to dangerous in seconds. " According to the complaint, an officer was standing ...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

Pandemic Pay and other Corrections news

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  Pandemic Pay: On April 29th MN Gov. Walz signed into law a bill giving bonus checks to 'front line worker' who worked through the...
Monday, May 02, 2022

National Correctional Officer Week, the struggle continues

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It's National Correctional Officers Week.  CO's bore the brunt of the Covid pandemic with the highest rate of getting the disease th...
Friday, April 08, 2022

MNCORA letter of support

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There are several bills that if passed would give among other things tax relief on pensions, Social Security and lower monthly employee cont...
Monday, April 04, 2022

Recent fights at Oak Park Heights MCF

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  Alpha news is reporting: Violent crimes between inmates erupted at Minnesota’s only level five maximum security prison last month. Oak Par...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Licensed Deputy Union Sues Hennepin County over vaccine mandate

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  KARE 11 is reporting:   MINNEAPOLIS — Unions representing Hennepin County Deputies, as well as heavy equipment operators/mechanics and sta...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Pension and Corrections Pension updates

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Anoka Co Jail and Gov Ctr There are currently 2 Bills in the Minnesota Legislature that may exempt our PERA Pension from Minnesota State Tax...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Two CO's asaulted, Stillwater MCF on lockdown

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  The AP is reporting - STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — A state prison outside of St. Paul remained on lockdown Monday after an inmate injured two ...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Presentation of Pension Working Group Report.

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On February 15th the 911 Telecommunicators Pension Benefits Working Group made their presentation to the Legislative Commission on Pensions ...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Feb. 10 PERA Update

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  I attended the PERA Board meeting today. It was reported to them that the 911 Telecommunicator Pension Benefit working group DID NOT REACH...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022

911 Pension Working Group Report

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The 911 Telecommunicator Pension Benefits Working Group has submitted their Report to the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement....
Friday, February 04, 2022

This looks funny

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 This is a follow up to the post Final Draft Approved for the 911 Telecommunicator . The Working Group sends out a 'Doodle' asking a...
Tuesday, February 01, 2022

Nationwide Federal Prison Lockdown

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The federal prison system has been placed on a nationwide lockdown after two inmates were killed and two others were injured Monday during a...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Final Draft approved for the 911 Telecommunicator Pension Benefits Workgroup

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Today the 911 Telecommunicators Pension Benefits workgroup met, made final changes and approved the Report to be given to the Legislative C...
Monday, January 24, 2022

How to grieve the vaccine mandate

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 Hennepin County has ordered all of it's employees to get the covid vaccines by April or face termination. This is wrong on many fronts,...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Pension Benefits Working Group Update

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One more meeting is scheduled on January 28th for the 911 Dispatch Pension Working Group. Presumably to finalize the letter to be given to t...