Shutdown et paradoxes: les détenus payés, pas les gardiens

Étonnant non? Vous imaginez l'état d'esprit de gardiens de prison, privés de revenus, se rendant au boulot alors que les détenus qui travaillent reçoivent leur paye? Une technicalité administrative explique cette situation. Le salaire des gardiens est affecté par le "shutdown", pas celui des détenus...

 "The government shutdown has turned federal prisons upside down — the guards are required to work without pay while the inmates collect their checks.

 Justice Department policy stipulates that thousands of hardened criminals with jobs making everything from furniture to clothes to license plates for Federal Prison Industries will keep getting paid during the spending stalemate.

 The roughly 38,000 correction officers at federal lockups across the country aren’t so lucky. “It’s bad,” fumed Officer Kelley Brown at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

http://nypost.com/2013/10/11/federal-prisoners-get-checks-as-correction-officers-go-unpaid-due-to-shutdown/