Springfield, IL– AFSCME members working in state prisons held informational pickets across Illinois today to raise concerns about the growing safety risks facing correctional staff and inmates at several IDOC facilities. State Senator Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) issued the following statement on the ongoing exposure incidents and attacks on guards and other correctional staff, emphasizing the need for immediate action to protect Illinois’ correctional officers and staff.
“The Pritzker Administration must stop stonewalling and start addressing the serious concerns of employees and their families working in our state’s correctional facilities. It is time for the uncontrolled drug smuggling and assaults on staff and inmates to end. Violence and hazardous substances are a threat to everyone in our state’s correctional facilities.
As a former prosecutor, I stand with the brave men and women who are tasked each day with the challenge of managing some of the most dangerous populations in the world. They deserve better than this from the Pritzker Administration.”