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Bureau of Prisons officers seek federal law penalizing sexual threats
A union alleged more than 300 incidents of inmates exposing themselves or engaging in sexual acts in front of staff at a single federal prison in 2022.
New federal prisons chief vows to fix troubles, regain trust
Peters said it’ll take time to turn around the Justice Department’s largest component with 122 facilities, 159,000 inmates and a budget of over $8 billion.
US Justice Dept. turns to reforming outsider Peters to run federal prisons
Peters will become only the second director in the agency’s history with no prior experience in the federal prisons system.
By Michael Balsamo and Michael R. Sisak
Bill would require Senate confirmation for US prison chief
The Bureau of Prisons is the Justice Department’s largest agency, but it’s the only agency whose director isn’t subject to Senate confirmation.
DOJ says federal inmates on home confinement can stay out of prison
More than 35,000 inmates were released as part of the effort to ease pandemic conditions as long as they met certain criteria, including they were not likely a danger to others.
Former Air Force translator, NSA contractor in leak case released from prison
Reality Winner was sentenced to five years and three months in prison, which prosecutors said at the time was the longest ever imposed for leaking government information to the news media.
Biden orders end of federally run private prisons
The moves President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday reflect his efforts to follow through with campaign pledges to combat racial injustice.
US carries out the 1st federal execution in nearly 2 decades
The U.S. on Tuesday carried out its first federal execution in almost two decades, killing by lethal injection a man convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in a 1990s plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.
Judge blocks federal executions; administration appeals
A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana. The Trump administration immediately appealed to a higher court, asking that the executions move forward.
Supreme Court refuses to block upcoming federal executions
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block the execution of four federal prison inmates who are scheduled to be put to death in July and August.
Feds to examine using pepper spray in minimum security prisons
Correctional officers at minimum security Bureau of Prisons facilities do not receive pepper spray as an incident management tool, but a watchdog report has called on the agency to reanalyze that decision.
By Jessie Bur