Thomson Prison employees still fight for pay despite Federal Bureau of Prison bonuses
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Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth says she’s troubled by bonuses paid to managers of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, but employees at FCI Thomson are fighting to get their retention bonuses restored.
Union leaders learned through a freedom of information act inquiry that wardens and other managerial employees got $14,000 – $30,000 in bonuses and compensation last year. The union is fighting the Bureau of Prisons to reinstate a 25% retention bonus that got cut before Christmas. Those bonuses added up to about $16,000 as an incentive to keep people working in the rural community of Thomson.
Duckworth says she plans to bring up the bonuses and the retention pay issue with the director of the Bureau of Prisons at an upcoming meeting. Both Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Eric Sorensen also called for the retention bonuses to be restored.
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