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People running Bureau of Prisons are getting as bad as criminals they are guarding




While many people inside federal prisons deserve their punishment, this does not mean that they need to be in a deadly, corrupt system that is mismanaged. The amount of deaths and scandals are expected at this point, no matter what warnings the DOJ Inspector General has said. There are so many issues that have gone from fixable to lawsuits waiting to happen that one article is unable to mention them all. This article will show how bad the Bureau of Prisons has become via Congressional testimony of Inspector General Michael Horowitz.


Scope of Problem


Here, from the beginning of the February testimony, is the overview of what the BOP has become.


“Before turning to the Deaths in Custody report, it is important to put its findings into a broader context and to emphasize the recurring, chronic nature of many of the issues we identified. I have been the Inspector General at the Justice Department for almost 12 years, and every year I have included the BOP in my annual report of the top management and performance challenges facing the Department. Yet, with some notable exceptions, the problems at the BOP have generally increased over the years. Indeed, last year, the Comptroller General for the first time added the BOP to the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) high-risk list due to its “long-standing challenges with managing staff and resources, and planning and evaluating programs that help incarcerated people successfully return to the community.”


"To be clear, these are not new problems, but rather problems that are over a decade in the making. In that vein, yesterday the OIG released a compendium of 117 primarily non-investigative reports and other OIG products that we have publicly issued since 2002 detailing the OIG’s extensive oversight of the BOP’s programs and operations and reflecting the systemic challenges at the BOP that have significantly increased over the past two decades. The compendium organizes these oversight products into four themes: (1) the Safety and Security of BOP Institutions, (2) the Health and Welfare of Inmates, (3) Staffing and Inmate Management Programs, and (4) Cost Management. These oversight products have identified recurring issues that impede the BOP’s efforts to consistently ensure the health, safety, and security of all staff and inmates within its custody. The OIG’s Deaths in Custody report is a continuation of the OIG’s extensive BOP oversight work.”


BOP Employee Criminal Culture


Later, in the same testimony, Horowitz had this to say about the criminality of the employees of the Bureau.


“Additionally, holding staff accountable for criminal and administrative misconduct is a critical part of improving the safety and security of BOP institutions for both inmates and the overwhelming majority of BOP employees who do their jobs every day with honesty and integrity. Yet we have found that an ineffective staff disciplinary process can create safety and security issues and exacerbate staffing challenges by failing to hold individuals accountable for egregious misconduct.


"The sexual assault of inmates by BOP personnel continues to be a top challenge for the Department and the BOP, and the OIG continues to dedicate significant investigative resources to these cases. That is why I was pleased when the Deputy Attorney General convened an important working group to review the BOP’s and DOJ’s response to sexual misconduct by DOJ personnel; in November 2022, the Working Group issued a Report that contained numerous recommendations and reforms, which the OIG supports. The need for these reforms is exemplified by our ongoing investigative efforts at Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin, where the Warden, Chaplain, and other staff have been convicted on sex abuse charges. Our FCI Dublin investigation has shown what happens when misconduct is not timely identified and addressed, and instead spirals and poisons the culture at an institution.”


The rest of the testimony is just as grim, which means that the taxpayers will be paying for settlements from inmates and their families suing. No employee of the Bureau of Prisons should be committing the crimes they are, but everyone knows they are. The criminal justice system in this nation is a joke, with the reputation aided by criminals in charge of guarding the criminals. While there is no doubt that there are some hard cases that need to be locked away, there are some in there that can be rehabilitated. Garbage facilities and corrupt guards will not allow that to happen.


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