Corrections professionals do demanding work that impacts their health, families, and long term well-being.
Wellness Works is One Voice United’s framework for addressing those realities in a way that is practical, credible, and shaped by staff experiences
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Visit Before You Vote is a national campaign created to educate and engage decision makers on the realities of corrections before they make sweeping changes to policy or vote on funding decisions.
Continue readingOne Voice United (OVU) and FAMM, respectively, two of the leading organizations representing correctional staff and incarcerated people and their families, have joined together in a new campaign for safer prisons.
Continue readingOVU led the first-ever delegation of correctional staff union members and labor leaders on a journey to Norway to reimagine the concept of incarceration in the U.S. and determine what, if any, Norwegian concepts or ideas could be used or implemented back home.
Continue readingDuring this state of national emergency, crisis and tragedy surrounding coronavirus (COVID-19), corrections officers and other staff across the country are being asked to report for duty amid rapidly changing and unprecedented circumstances.
Continue readingNo other occupation works in confined spaces with such a high-risk population and where social distancing is virtually an impossibility. These conditions impact over 400,000 staff and the 1.5 million people in our custody, and as such, they must be addressed and prioritized.
Continue readingOne Voice United developed 15 critical policy recommendations in response to COVID-19 and, with the support of national labor
leaders and presidents of 16 state unions across the country, submitted them to the National Governors Association.
Respectfully, we ask that the National Governors Association (NGA) create a mechanism to discuss and adopt this resolution as well as engage and encourage governors across the United States to work with their corrections departments on immediate implementation of these recommendations. We would like to meet with you as soon as possible to discuss how we can work together to make this happen.
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