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Members of Congress Probe Pentagon on Accreditation of Military Prisons
by Douglas Ankney
On June 10, 2020, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper requesting information about the Department of Defense’s (“DOD”) reliance on the American Correctional Association (“ACA”) for accreditation of military confinement and corrections facilities.
“The importance of …
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