Category: Congress
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Colette Peters Is In The Congressional Hot Seat
Oregon’s Four Congressmen and 2 Senators Call For Swift Answers From BOP Director Peters It was widely reported last week that the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) led by Michael Horowitz, released the findings of two unannounced inspections of FCI Sheridan. These two inspections took place in November and December of 2023. Ms. Peters…
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Chevron Decision Could Be Big For First Step Act
Supreme Court To Decide Chevron Decision’s Fate This Summer and it could be big for the First Step Act The First Step Act of 2018 was the first significant prison reform legislation passed by Congress in nearly two decades. The bi-partisan legislation allows Federal inmates to earn “earned time credits” by participating in Evidence Based…
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Booker and Others Challenge Slave Labor In Prisons
Senate Probe Over “slave labor” in Federal Bureau of Prisons Facilities For many of the Bureau of Prisons nearly 160,000 federal inmates having a job is not an option. The Bureau of Prisons operates several “work camps” and “work compounds” across the country where inmates who are capable of having jobs, but refuse to work,…
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What Is The Federal Prison Oversight Act
House Passes Bi-Partisan Federal Prison Oversight Act On Tuesday the House of Representatives passed Senator John Ossoff’s bipartisan “Federal Prison Oversight Act. Orsoff and other’s including Senators Dick Durbin, Chuck Grassley and Cory Booker have been pushing for better oversight of the agency that came in dead last in a recent survey of the best…