The Trump administration is calling for a 14% reduction in federal prison jobs, including 1,850 fewer correctional officers, while projecting a 2% increase in prisoners under more aggressive prosecutions of illegal immigrants and drug offenders.

More than 80% of those 6,132 prison jobs are currently vacant; the rest of the positions would be eliminated through attrition over fiscal year 2018, according to the spending plan for the Justice Department. The federal prison population had been declining over the past four years.

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