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29 Jun 2020, 8:52 pm by Scott Limmer
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP), which runs the 122 federal corrections facilities nationwide last year holding about 220,000 inmates, or about 10% of the nation’s total of over 2.2 million, announced on March 13 that, for at least 30 days, social and volunteer visitors would not be allowed. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 1:27 pm by Maritime Law Staff
Federal investagators told the media last Friday that there is “potentially a fundamental safety design problem with the pod system” that controls the blowout preventer, or BOP that was used to stop the Gulf oil spill. [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 2:13 am
Is the BOP simply impervious to such matters? [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 9:58 am by John Floyd
CITIZENS MISTREATED IN FEDERAL FOR-PROFIT PRISONS appeared first on . [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 11:30 am by Joshua Cossin
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class action lawsuit on Monday against the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the warden of Oakdale Federal Detention Centers in Louisiana seeking “the release of people who are incarcerated and at high risk for serious illness or death in the event of COVID-19 infection due to age and/or underlying medical conditions. [read post]
5 Jul 2022, 3:00 am by David Oscar Markus
  This entire article about the problem, entitled "Thousands of federal inmates still await early release under Trump-era First Step Act," is worth a read:Thousands of nonviolent federal prisoners eligible for early release under a promising Trump-era law remain locked up nearly four years later because of inadequate implementation, confusion and bureaucratic delays, prisoner advocacy groups, affected inmates and former federal prison officials say.Even … [read post]
3 Nov 2007, 9:33 am
With all of the sensitivity and care of the charming Nurse Ratched (left), the federal government and the BOP routinely seek to involuntary medicate our incompetent clients. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 2:30 pm
At the Sheridan Federal Detention Center in Oregon, another BOP facility, immigrants likewise suffer from lack of access to counsel and other unconstitutional conditions, which are being challenged by the ACLU of Oregon and the Federal Public Defender. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 1:23 am
[JURIST] Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] will remain in a US federal prison until all appeals relating to an extradition request by France have been exhausted, despite his originally-scheduled September 9 release date [BOP materials; JURIST report], the US Department of State said Friday. [read post]
15 Jan 2008, 8:58 am
., Judge Tinder), a 16-page opinion, Judge Rovner writes:David Hammer, a federal prisoner on death row, sued various Bureau of Prisons ("BOP") officials alleging that they violated his First Amendment and equal protection rights by implementing and enforcing a policy that prevents him from giving face-to-face interviews with the media and from talking with the media about other inmates. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 11:36 am
The United States Supreme Court by a 6-3 vote, yesterday, endorsed a long-standing Bureau of Prisons (BOP) method of calculating "good time credit" based on the length of time actually served, not the length of the term imposed by the sentencing judge, a Law.com article this morning said -- a decision affecting the prison terms of nearly 200,000 inmates in federal prisons across the nation. [read post]
8 Sep 2007, 2:46 pm
Noriega is slated for release from US federal prison [BOP materials; JURIST report] Sunday. [read post]
10 Mar 2020, 1:20 pm by Allan Blutstein
By Elizabeth Dye, Above the Law, Mar. 10, 2020If middle schoolers can ‘shop cats ‘n’ shit into their TikToks, then the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) can work out how to redact a video of an inmate getting stabbed in the dining hall. [read post]