Topic: A Broader View / Federal Bureau of Prisons

I was just hired onto the BOP within the last year and when I came in I was told that the cut off for retirement was 50 because they believe that after that people may become too much of a liability due to the nature of the job (fights, scuffles, ect.). That isn’t too much worse than any other federal agency to include the military. I have spent 7 years in the Army as an MP and had seen some civilian DOD police tat were well into their 50’s that I wouldn’t trust to have my back. I know there are a lot of 50 yr olds that can hold their own but it is because of a few that it is ruined for all. I am also disapointed in some people’s profesionalism on this site. As law enforcement I’m sure we all know that wording is everything, so why do we have people talking about how they kicked an inmate’s butt? I’m sure you could word that in a way where we will still understand what happened and still keep it professional being that this is a public site.