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 ...

U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) have introduced the Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act, a ...

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 ...

This is not a problem that is going away anytime soon. While President Joe Biden signed into law this year a federal prison oversight bill, it requires the BOP to do even more with the same budget.

EMPTY BEDS: Assemblymember Phil Ting’s bill ... by closing prisons. And the state, for the past decade, has taken steps to reduce dangerous overcrowding in prisons following a federal court ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

That year, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Bulger’s family against the bureau and 30 unidentified prison system employees. In July, the U.S. Senate passed legislation to overhaul ...

(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 ...