'We're Risking Our Lives': Front-Line Federal Workers Sue For Hazard Pay
From correctional officers to TSA employees, federal workers say their jobs are made more dangerous by the coronavirus.
For the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic, correctional officer Kareen "Troy" Troitino says things were "pretty relaxed" at FCI Miami. There were no cases of COVID-19 at the low-security federal prison, which currently houses some 1,000 inmates.
That all changed, he says, early last month. "And then on the week of
