backed the House version of the bill. In a statement, Ossoff called Wednesday’s passage "a major milestone" and that his investigation had "revealed an urgent need to overhaul Federal prison ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write and consult on federal criminal law and criminal justice. There is little that unites both parties on Capitol Hill with the ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill strengthening oversight of the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons after The Associated Press exposed systemic corruption and abuse in the ...

OpEd: Existing BOP prisons are critically understaffed, unrepaired, and over-filled. The Letcher project won’t help.

Ossoff and the bill’s two other sponsors, Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sens. Mike Braun, R-Ind., launched the Senate Bipartisan Prison Policy Working Group in February ...

Eberhart, who represented Indiana House District 57 from January 2006 to November 2022, was sentenced in July to one year and one day in federal prison for supporting a bill favoring a casino in ...

A California state senator wrote a bill to allow media to have better ... horrible ‘Rape Club,’ the situation in the Dublin federal prison, where there was just rampant staff-on-inmate sexual ...

The facilities repair worker pleaded guilty to smuggling contraband into Waupun Correctional Institution between July 2022 ...

(AP) – A federal ... Bureau of Prisons’ director to develop a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs sent through the mail to federal prisons nationwide. The bill has stalled ...

A former facilities repair worker at Waupun Correctional Institution pleaded guilty Thursday to smuggling contraband into a ...