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22 Aug 2016, 11:12 am by rcampagna
  By 2013, as both the federal prison population and the proportion of federal prisoners in private facilities reached their peak, the Bureau was housing approximately 15 percent of its population in privately operated prisons. 2013 was also the year that the Department of Justice launched its Smart on Crime Initiative after identifying reforms that would ensure more proportional sentences and effective use of… [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 10:00 am
Department of Justice directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to begin phasing out all of its contracts with private prisons. [read post]
18 Nov 2021, 12:18 pm by Neal Davis
Bureau of Prisons employers and contractors arrested The AP says that Department of Justice prison personnel, who account for less than one-third of the DOJ’s workforce, account for more than two-thirds of the criminal cases against the department’s employees. [read post]
28 Feb 2022, 1:15 pm by Ana Popovich
AP News obtained federal Bureau of Prisons documents and court records, and conducted interviews with “current and former prison employees and inmates. [read post]
5 May 2004, 5:56 am
Justice Department investigators reported Wednesday that the US Bureau of Prisons has failed to adequately screen or supervise Muslim chaplains and persons providing Islamic religious services to inmates at federal facilities. [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 12:22 pm by Mike Scarcella
The Justice Department is defending its refusal not to release certain information federal authorities used to place inmates in a restrictive prison setting that limits communication and bans physical contact with the outside world. [read post]
Attorney General Holder made a bold and historic move to reevaluate who the Department of Justice was using its resources to lock up in prison, and any reduction in the bloated federal prison population is worth cheering. [read post]
14 Jul 2017, 2:15 pm by Autumn Callan
The Office of the Inspector General for the US Department of Justice [official websites] issued a report [PDF] on Friday criticizing the Bureau of Prison's (BOP) [official website] treatment of inmates with mental illnesses. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 8:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A helpful reader sent me a public notice recently from the Waco Tribune Herald announcing that "The US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) ... to assess the potential environmental impacts of contracting with a private contractor to house approximately 1,000 federal, low-security, adult male, non-US citizen, criminal aliens at a contractor-owned,… [read post]
21 Jun 2021, 11:58 am by Samantha Osaki
But according to the Department of Justice’s findings in 2018, the average time served by people who are incarcerated in state facilities was 2.6 years. [read post]
  President Biden ordered the US Department of Justice not to renew its contracts with 12 privately owned federal criminal detention facilities on January 26. [read post]
28 Mar 2008, 8:56 am
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC), an agency within the US Justice Department’s Federal Bureau of Prisons, has set up a new blog, Juvenile Justice Connection, to “facilitate the exchange of information among juvenile justice professionals,” according to the press announcement. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 3:49 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
According to testimony (pdf) by Federal Bureau of Prison Director Charles Samuels, Jr. [read post]
24 Feb 2017, 8:52 am by Lawrenz Fares
[JURIST] US Attorney General Jeff Sessions [official website] issued a memo [memo, PDF] made public Thursday that rescinds an Obama administration memo [text] calling for the phasing out of the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] use of private prisons. [read post]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Tuesday reversed a lower court’s decision allowing the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to withhold the names of its pentobarbital suppliers. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 10:04 am by Steve Hall
The Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics has released two annual reports detailing America's prison population and those on probation and parole. [read post]