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So call now. hundreds of thousands of federal workers on edge as the government shutdown escalates and that includes employees at federal prisons across this country. in aliceville, alabama, the correctional facility for women is the driving force of the local economy there but this week, prison workers are facing the harsh reality of missing their first paychecks since the shutdown started and cnn's
I don't know how exactly that would come about and that's, i think, what any crisis in washington means in order to come to resolution. >> i think if you talked to me before the new year, i was going to say that, until we started to see the stories roll out about how people are losing their paychecks, they live paycheck to paycheck that they have normal jobs in other parts of the country. then no one was going to feel the same amount of pain and we went through the holidays. those are the stories we'll see roll out. i have a team with bureau of prison workers, some voted for trump. some kind o...
>> shepard: two work aeshts a prison in north carolina are dead after inmates set fire to the place and tried to escape. that's the word from public safety officials there. it happened in elizabeth city about 130 miles northeast of raleigh. investigators say the inmates started the fire in the prison sewing plant. officials say 10 workers and four prisoners were hurt, three employees critical this morning. a prison spokesman says none of the inmates managed to escape. jonathan terry is in the southeast newsroom with more. how did this go down? >> at this point investigators believe that four i...
Police storming the james t. vaughn correction center near dover early this morning following an 18-hour siege. four prison workers were captured in all including a woman identified as a counselor who was rescued unharmed. two other guards escaped wednesday night. officials announcing the death of another guard sergeant steven floyd, a 16-year veteran. investigators say they're considering all 120 inmates in the building as suspects. supreme court nominee neil gorsuch spending a second day making rounds on capitol hill, meeting with tennessee senator bob corker and other top lawmakers. and wit...
And you have to learn to not be as, i guess, like me. a caring person. and you need to make sure that you keep yourself distant so you're not getting caught up into stuff like what i did. >> reporter: in spite of the corrections training given to prison workers, she claims any compassionate person is vulnerable. >> i'm not the first person to this that this has happened to. and i can tell you right now, i'm not going to be the last. because unless you're somebody that's going to be completely coldhearted when you go in there, it's going to happen to somebody else. >> so it's a cautionary tale?...