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Bureau of Prisons-Additional Actions Needed to Improve Restrictive Housing Practices, Feb. 2024 United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Requesters February 2024 BUREAU OF PRISONS Additional Actions Needed to Improve Restrictive Housing Practices GAO-24-105737 February 2024 GAO Highlights BUREAU OF PRISONS Additional Actions Needed to Improve Restrictive Housing Practices …
BOP Rolls Out Veterans-Only Housing at Federal Prison in Texas by In an article published by the Vanguard at Berkeley on October 15, 2023, a new program was reported at the Federal Correctional Institution in Seagoville, Texas: A dorm exclusively for prisoners who are veterans of the U.S. military. Federal …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
BOP Shrugs Off Month-Long Leavenworth Lockdown by Promising a “return to normal operations status as soon as possible” at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, the federal Bureau of Prisons insisted on March 28, 2024, that the 1,837 prisoners held there still have access to food, water and medical care …
Over 5,000 Prisoners Federally Sentenced Every Month by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In the nine months ending on June 30, 2023, there were 47,931 sentences for federal crime, driving more than 5,000 prisoners into custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons every month, according to data released by the …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Three-Year Sentence for One of Four BOP Employees Charged With Ignoring Fatally Ill Federal Prisoner in Virginia by On November 28, 2023, a federal judge in Virginia sentenced a former lieutenant with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to a three-year term for failing to intervene in a prisoner’s preventable …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Nearly $11 Million Settlement Reached in Suit by BOP Prisoners Held Without Heat, Electricity During New York Winter Storm by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On August 18, 2023, an agreement was reached by Defendant officials with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) paying $10,936,250 to settle claims brought in …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Senators Grill BOP Chief—Then Say They’ll Toss Her More Money by A little over a year after becoming director of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Colette Peters faced questions on September 13, 2023, from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who hammered her about transparency, unfulfilled promises and missing …
BOP Slammed for Prisoner Abuse in Now-Shuttered Segregation Unit at USP-Thomson in Illinois by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A report on July 6, 2023, from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs (WLCCR&UA) exposed abuses suffered by prisoners at the hands of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Fifth BOP Employee Sentenced in California “Rape Club,” Another Lawsuit Filed by Former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Andrew Jones, 36, is now part of the notorious “rape club” at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, receiving the longest sentence so far in the ongoing scandal when U.S. District …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Former L.A. County Jail Detainees Denied Promised Sentence Credits by A nonprofit is asking for help for 23 former Los Angeles County jail detainees who completed work and education programs but were never credited promised time off the sentences they eventually received. KeepYourWordCali says the detainees participated in the Education-Based …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: Good Time Credits, Credits
Vermont Supreme Court Provides Prisoner No Relief for Denial of Earned-Time Credits by On January 27, 2023, the Vermont Supreme Court held that a state prisoner was not entitled to benefit from an earned-time program because he committed his offense after the program was authorized but sentenced before it went …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Settlement Reached Over COVID-19 Measures, Home Confinement Releases at FCC Lompoc by On October 11, 2022, the federal court for the Central District of California approved a settlement resolving a suit over COVID-19 precautions and releases filed by prisoners at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Lompoc, California, in May …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Former BOP Guard Gets Light Sentence for COVID-19 Fraud by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 17, 2023, a former guard at the Federal Correctional Complex in Yazoo City, Mississippi, got a light sentence for defrauding the U.S. of $12,586 in loans she swindled from the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Government Watchdog Adds BOP to List at “High Risk” of Mismanagement by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In March 2023, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its bi-annual “high-risk list” of federal programs or operations that are susceptible to waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement. Added to the list …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Congress Forces BOP to Upgrade Security Cameras by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson “Broken prison camera systems are enabling corruption, misconduct and abuse” within America’s 122 federal prisons, declared U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), when Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) signed Ossoff’s bipartisan Prison Camera Reform Act of 2021 …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Former BOP Employees Guilty of Assaulting a Prisoner and Taking Bribes at Troubled Federal Prison in Massachusetts by On July 10, 2023, a sentence of 12-months plus one day was handed to a former guard at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Danvers, Massachusetts, for brutally assaulting a mentally ill …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Federal Watchdog Finds BOP Staffing, Maintenance in Crisis by The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report in early May 2023, finding “four foundational, enterprise-wide challenges” confronting the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The first involves “weaknesses in the BOP’s internal audit function,” deficiencies …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Senators Slam “Egregious” Prisoner Sexual Abuse by BOP Employees by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson “I was sentenced and put in prison for choices I made,” said Briane Moore. “I was not sentenced to prison to be raped and abused.” She was testifying at a hearing of the U.S. Senate …
Biden Commutes 31 Federal Drug Sentences by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi On April 29, 2023, Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) reduced the federal prison sentences of 31 people, each serving time on home confinement for nonviolent drug-related convictions. The commutation of sentences was one component of a strategy …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
BOP Hits Back Hard After Federal Prisoner in Arizona Brandishes Gun by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart As of mid-January 2023, almost 100 minimum-security prisoners from the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Tucson were still being held in segregation at the nearby U.S. Penitentiary (USP) in Tucson, six weeks after …
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