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PSCOA Staffing Bill Introduced: Senate Bill 362
PSCOA Staffing Bill, SB 362, was introduced by Senator Jim Rhoades. Co-sponsors of the bill include Senators Kasunic, Kitchen, Musto, Gordner, Orie, Corman, Wozniak, Lemmond, Pippy, Logan, Stout and Madigan. Please contact the Legislator in your district and ask them to support this important piece of legislation and help prevent further assaults on officers due to understaffing.
Read PSCOA President Don McNany's editorial expressing the importance of this legislation. The Grassroots approach we are taking requires help from everyone. We need to flood your Senators and Representatives with letters showing our unanimous support for SB 362.
Read PSCOA's press release demanding the resignation of SCI Mahanoy's Superintendent Klem, and the DOC's response. The second PSCOA press release, sent on March 4, 2005, responds to the DOC and their allegations. The third press release, sent on March 28, 2005, the result of yet another assault. Read PSCOA's latest release to prevent understaffing, added September 14, 2005.
We urge everyone to get involved with ensuring this bill passes through legislation. Please send a letter to your local Legislator requesting their support of this important bill. Below are several sample letters that a Corrections Officer, family member of an officer or another concerned Pennsylvanian may use.
Recent Articles and Press Releases
Read the most recent PSCOA press release by Roy Pinto on assaults in the institutions and his letter to the editor of newspapers statewide. The letter to the editor has run in the Wilkes-Barre Citizens Voice (2/23/2005) and the Somerset Daily American (2/24/2005).
Read an article by Robert Kalinowksi, Staff Writer from the Citizens Voice, about the understaffing of the state of institutions that ran on February 19, 2005.
Bob Laylo, of the Morning Call, has written two articles in response to the first PSCOA press release. The first article ran on March 2, 2005, and the second on March 3, 2005.
Michelle Pittman, of the Times-Shamrock, also wrote an article in response to the first press release that ran on March 3, 2005.
John J. Moser, also of the Morning Call, wrote an article regarding the attack on Officer Joseph Duffy.
The Centre Daily Times released a short statement on the attack of Officer Duffy as well.
WGAL-TV 8 has also released a short article regarding the attack as a result of our press campaign.
Jim Seidel's letter to the editor regarding unsafe conditions for prison staff. (4/2/2005)
Shamokin News article regarding understaffing.
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