Federal Bureau of Prisons
Democrats Reintroduce Legislation To Combat COVID-19 Crisis in Prisons, Jails and Detention Centers
Photos: YouTube Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), along with Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Cory ...
Rep. Ayanna Pressley Leads Call on Biden to End Death Penalty
Photos: YouTube\Twitter Tuesday, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) led 41 of her House colleagues and three Representatives-Elect on a letter calling on President-Elect Joe Biden ...
COVID-19: Independent Watchdog Agrees to Investigate Racial Inequity in Pandemic Response
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a member of the Senate ...
COVID-19: Will Congressional Inaction continue with Lives at Stake?
[COVID-19\Congress] ACLU: “The time to act is now: lives are on the line. Members of Congress, do your job.” Photo: YouTube
Bill Prohibiting Collection of “Subsistence Fees” from Prisoners Passes House
[Prison “Subsistence Fees] Rep. Norton: “The Department of Justice itself has recognized that these fees individuals in halfway houses and on home confinement must ...
AMERICA’S PRISONS AND JAILS ARE BREEDING GROUNDS FOR COVID-19
[COVID-19\Prisons\Black America] According to The Marshall Project, there are approximately 9,500 infections among people detained and 3,950 infections among staff in prisons. This is ...
Pentagon Orders All Installations to Stop Reporting COVID-19 Infections and Deaths
The Pentagon has ordered all its commands, bases, and personnel to stop reporting statistics on COVID-19 infections and deaths in the US military, ...
CONGRESSWOMAN NORTON SENDS AG BARR LETTER INQUIRING ABOUT “FIRST STEP” LAW’S APPLICATION TO D.C. FELONS
[Mass Incarceration\”First Step Act”\D.C.] In November, Norton met with Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Kathleen Hawk Sawyer to ensure BOP would apply the ...
The New Slavery’s Boost: Private Prisons Smell Blood In The Water
Cover of Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow” The great Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in “The House of the Dead,” 1862, wrote: “The degree ...
Lynne Stewart, Terminally-ill, Back In New York After Release
Lynne Stewart the terminally ill imprisoned former attorney who built a reputation defending people who were shunned by so-called “mainstream” lawyers was released on ...
