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“This much-needed financial support will provide robust federal investment in the safety of our federal prisons and the brave correction officers who go to work in them every day. I was proud to deliver this essential funding as the chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee,” said Rep. Cartwright.

Cartwright said $180 million of the increase, above the Administration’s request for BOP operations, will go towards the recruitment, retention and hiring of qualified corrections officers by offering competitive pay and benefits as well as retention and hiring bonuses.

"I am extremely grateful to Congressman Cartwright for getting this money allocated to the Bureau of Prisons to hire proper staffing, that can bring these to safe levels" says Donald Williams, father of the late Senior Officer, Eric Williams.

Don and Jean Williams, who frequently visit their murdered son’s grave, know an extra $180 million for the federal prison system won’t bring him back. The Nanticoke couple hopes the money means someone else’s son doesn’t end up like Eric Williams, a corrections officer stabbed and beaten to death by an inmate almost 10 years ago at the federal prison at Canaan in Wayne…

“It’s a big victory for the citizens of the united states, because how we treat our correctional officers and how we treat our inmates really matters. This makes everybody safer,” explained Cartwright.

Federal funds will be coming to help hire and retain correctional officers at federal prisons. Outside his office on Wyoming Avenue in Scranton, Rep. Matt Cartwright announced $180 million for the Federal Bureau of Prisons to increase recruitment and hiring efforts of correctional officers. Staff shortages have been a major issue for a decade, including at USP Canaan near…

As U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright (PA-08), a senior member of the House Committee on Appropriations, announces that all 15 of his community project funding requests were included in the final 2023 federal omnibus spending package that passed, with $52.7 million coming to the Eighth District, his office provided information about what would be funded in Pike County and elsewhere in the district.

Funding requests for 15 community projects in Northeast Pennsylvania were included in the 2023 federal omnibus spending package that was passed last week. Representative Matthew Cartwright announced that $52.7 million in federal funding will make its way to the 8th District of Pennsylvania to benefit 15 projects that promote economic development, expand medical and mental health…

U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright (PA-08), a senior member of the House Committee on Appropriations, announced that all 15 of his community project funding requests were included in the final 2023 federal omnibus spending package that passed on Thursday, December 22. That means $52.7 million is coming back to the Eighth District for projects that will promote economic development, expand medical…

U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright announced the award to Lackawanna County to support de-escalation and crisis intervention training. The announcement said the goal is to train 600 police officers and other professionals over the coming years in de-escalating mental health and addiction-related crises.