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Hitoshi Nishimura/Getty Images(NEW YORK) The head of the Bureau of Prisons union has written to President Joe Biden asking him to seriously consider the impact staffing shortages are having on the nation s federal prisons.
"The current staffing shortage within our agency have reached a critical level, placing an unsustainable burden on our existing workforce, and compromising the safety and security of both staff and inmates," president of the Council of Prison Locals 33, Brandy Moore-White wrote to Biden in a letter obtained by ABC News.
Moore-White represents nearly 30,000 federal corrections employees.
BOP has lost 9,000 staff members since 2016, which "has raised serious concerns about our ability to effectively carry out our responsibilities," the letter said.
"These shortages have resulted in increased workloads, mandatory overtime, a practice called augmentation or reassignment (where non-correctional officers are assigned to perform the duties of
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