Inmates in Federal Prisons Get Paid while Guards Don't

Makes sense huh. Pay the criminals and not the guards?...Can't have Democrats not getting paid now can we?

The government shutdown has turned federal prisons upside down — the guards are required to work without pay while the inmates collect their checks. 

Justice Department policy stipulates that thousands of hardened criminals with jobs making everything from furniture to clothes to license plates for Federal Prison Industries will keep getting paid during the spending stalemate.

The roughly 38,000 correction officers at federal lockups across the country aren’t so lucky.

He's not a happy camper:

"It just seems wrong on so many levels," said Federal prison employee and local union president Jeff Roberts. 

Roberts is not getting paid right now even though he goes to work each day. He is one of about 600 workers at the facility impacted by the government shutdown. 

"There's a sense of fear among the employees, they do not want to have to default on a loan or have their credit affected or have a bad name within the community," said Roberts.

But the prisoners they are guarding are still getting money for landscaping and other work done inside the jail. 

"The inmates who have committed the crimes in this country and are incarcerated by violating the laws of common society, they're not affected by the shutdown, but the employees that we trust to keep our communities safe are," said Roberts.

Only in America...

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