Corrections

IDOC Southern Region Training Academy already making a difference

The Illinois Department of Corrections has entered into an agreement with John A. Logan College in Carterville to make the college its Southern Region Training Academy, which will accommodate an additional 100 trainees per cadet class. 

IDOC Southern Region Training Academy already making a difference

Keeping up the fight to fix Tier 2

AFSCME and our allies in the We Are One Illinois coalition are vowing to carry the fight for pension fairness forward into the spring legislative session, but it’s going to take the involvement of every AFSCME member to get it over the finish line.

Keeping up the fight to fix Tier 2

Thousands rally in Springfield to say “Fix Tier 2!”

Thousands of public service workers—members of AFSCME and our allied unions in the We Are One Illinois coalition—gathered in Springfield on Nov. 13 to demand lawmakers fix the broken and unfair Tier 2 pension system.

Thousands rally in Springfield to say “Fix Tier 2!”

Our Safety Matters! IDOC employees turn up heat for safer working conditions

AFSCME report details scope of drug problem

A new report published by AFSCME Council 31 confirms what IDOC employees have long been saying: Drugs have increasingly become a massive problem in Illinois prisons, and management’s inaction has had serious consequences for staff and individual

Our Safety Matters! IDOC employees turn up heat for safer working conditions

Our Safety Matters: AFSCME members in IDOC and IDHS picket for safe workplaces

When confronted with management inaction in the wake of serious assaults on staff at their facilities, AFSCME members at Menard Correctional Center and Ludeman Developmental Center both took their fight for safe workplaces to the picket line.

Our Safety Matters: AFSCME members in IDOC and IDHS picket for safe workplaces