Tag Archives: Bureau of Prisons

Correctional officer absenteeism has at least doubled since the shutdown began, resulting in more frequent double shifts or persons in other jobs filling in for correctional officers.

BOP cannot verify all claims were for necessary, non-duplicative services.

In America, you can make a lot of money. You can put a businessman in charge of the country to ensure that you keep making that money. You can go from penniless to a multi-millionaire. Turns out some just aren't too choosy about how they get there.

Complaints from inmates and their families included power outages, lack of adequate sanitation and air conditioning, limited drinking water and hot meals, and being unable to flush toilets, shower, or get clean laundry for about a week.

Since 2009, while the agency has planned or carried out heath care cost control measures, it has yet to evaluate the effectiveness of those measures. Of 16 cost-control programs BOP identified, it could document cost savings from only one.

Three female inmates in a federal prison in Texas have gone to court in an attempt to block a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy that requires them to share bathrooms and showers with inmates who identify as transgender females but are biologically male.

The idea that a corporation should ever profit from warehousing humans still remains beyond offensive and should not be tolerated in a civil and just society.

Interview with Christopher Zoukis, author of 'Federal Prison Handbook'.

Quality vocational training, in-prison work experience, and job opportunities upon release could be so transformative if only there were the vision and leadership to realize the potential.

The Bureau of Prisons is a giant federal agency that has stymied Freedom of Information Act requests for years.