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That is great! But now who is to watch the mini yards when their is no assigned officers and I mean officers because no one should be alone at anytime!!filing the grievance on the abolition of the Mini Yards. The cim yard was not asked or at least the units on the "B" side or yard staff. I know it is a matter of principal but safety wise it worked well considering the staffing ## 1 more thing who's input that workes on the cim minimum yard was solicited?? for the grievance's?? one per watch needs to be in the process. jerry is great guy. But when was the last time he took the pulse of the program of each watch?? just curios??
In answer to part one of your question, "who is to watch the mini yards when their [sic] is no assigned officers?", the mini yards are reinstated and, as before December 21, 2006, the housing unit officers are the assigned staff for the mini yards. Since there has been no difference in the amount of inmate capacity in the housing units let's do the math.
Generally under the Mini Yard, Correctional Officer to Inmate ratio is 1:100 (based on 2 Officers and 200 inmates per housing unit).
Under the illegal abolition of the Mini Yards, there was the potential of 1,000+ inmates all put together on the Main Yard creating a Correctional Officer to inmate ratio of 1:250 (best case scenario) or more than double the Mini Yard ratio. This is calculated on the 4 Correctional Officers which are assigned to supervise the main yard, however, this number may be less depending on the duties of these Officers which may take them off of the yard at any time. If an S&E is taken off of the yard because of other duties, the inmate to Correctional Officer ratio would soar. The loss of 1 C/O would make the ratio 1:333, the loss of 2 C/Os would make the ratio 1:500 and the loss of three would make the ratio 1:1,000. With the Mini Yard, the ratio of 1:100 remains stable because the housing unit staff's assigned duties do not remove them from the area of the Mini Yard.
In fact, it was a combined clamoring of, not only the Correctional Officers at MSF, but the Sergeants and Lieutenants as well, that propelled the grievance forward. All were concerned about the safety of this new procedure and the lack of examination it received prior to implementation.
For part two of your statement, if I read it right, you seem to say that there needs to be a grievance filed on each watch???
The grievance was filed pursuant to §27.01 and Sideletter 8 of the MOU. This grieves the procedural defect of failing to notice CCPOA for the purpose of examining the impact of the policy itself, not the watch upon which it was applied. Only one grievance need be filed on this type of grievance and, when the policy falls, it falls for all watches.
In parting, I would like to remind you that Jerry walks among you in the trenches and he is well aware of the pulse of ALL the MSF membership.
I think that someone making Associate Warden's pay should have thought of that before he implemented the elimination of the Mini Yards in the first place.
If the administration let CCPOA do all of their thinking, CIM would be in much better shape.
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That is great! But now who is to watch the mini yards when their is no assigned officers and I mean officers because no one should be alone at anytime!!filing the grievance on the abolition of the Mini Yards. The cim yard was not asked or at least the units on the "B" side or yard staff. I know it is a matter of principal but safety wise it worked well considering the staffing ## 1 more thing who's input that workes on the cim minimum yard was solicited?? for the grievance's?? one per watch needs to be in the process. jerry is great guy. But when was the last time he took the pulse of the program of each watch?? just curios??
In answer to part one of your question, "who is to watch the mini yards when their [sic] is no assigned officers?", the mini yards are reinstated and, as before December 21, 2006, the housing unit officers are the assigned staff for the mini yards. Since there has been no difference in the amount of inmate capacity in the housing units let's do the math.
Generally under the Mini Yard, Correctional Officer to Inmate ratio is 1:100 (based on 2 Officers and 200 inmates per housing unit).
Under the illegal abolition of the Mini Yards, there was the potential of 1,000+ inmates all put together on the Main Yard creating a Correctional Officer to inmate ratio of 1:250 (best case scenario) or more than double the Mini Yard ratio. This is calculated on the 4 Correctional Officers which are assigned to supervise the main yard, however, this number may be less depending on the duties of these Officers which may take them off of the yard at any time. If an S&E is taken off of the yard because of other duties, the inmate to Correctional Officer ratio would soar. The loss of 1 C/O would make the ratio 1:333, the loss of 2 C/Os would make the ratio 1:500 and the loss of three would make the ratio 1:1,000. With the Mini Yard, the ratio of 1:100 remains stable because the housing unit staff's assigned duties do not remove them from the area of the Mini Yard.
In fact, it was a combined clamoring of, not only the Correctional Officers at MSF, but the Sergeants and Lieutenants as well, that propelled the grievance forward. All were concerned about the safety of this new procedure and the lack of examination it received prior to implementation.
For part two of your statement, if I read it right, you seem to say that there needs to be a grievance filed on each watch???
The grievance was filed pursuant to §27.01 and Sideletter 8 of the MOU. This grieves the procedural defect of failing to notice CCPOA for the purpose of examining the impact of the policy itself, not the watch upon which it was applied. Only one grievance need be filed on this type of grievance and, when the policy falls, it falls for all watches.
In parting, I would like to remind you that Jerry walks among you in the trenches and he is well aware of the pulse of ALL the MSF membership.
Gary
It is SOOOO GOOOOOD to get our union back again!
Thanks Gary, we made the right decision.
I think that someone making Associate Warden's pay should have thought of that before he implemented the elimination of the Mini Yards in the first place.
If the administration let CCPOA do all of their thinking, CIM would be in much better shape.
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