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President Joe Biden signed into law on Thursday a bill strengthening oversight of the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons after reporting by The Associated Press exposed systemic corruption ...
“This is a major milestone,” said Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., who led an investigation into the federal prison system two years ago Congress passes federal oversight bill for 122 prisons sponsored ...
Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., introduced the bill in 2022 while leading an investigation of the Bureau of Prisons as chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s subcommittee on investigations.
In April, the Bureau of Prisons said it was closing its women’s prison in Dublin, California, known as the “rape club,” giving up on attempts to reform the facility after an AP investigation exposed rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse. Last year, two high-profile prisoners were attacked and another killed himself in federal prisons.
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Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters lauded the bill as she testifying before Congress this week. But, she told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance that the agency will need tens of millions of dollars in additional funding “to effectively respond to the additional oversight and make that ...
Jul. 25—MORGANTOWN — President Biden signed into law on Thursday the Federal Prison Oversight Act—a bill co-sponsored by Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito to address problems in the ...
The Federal Home Loan Bank Board Building, which houses the main office of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C.. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that is responsible for all federal prisons in the country and provides for the care, custody, and control of federal prisoners.