Source: apnews.com 3/11/24 The warden of a troubled federal women’s prison in California has been ousted months into his tenure as FBI agents on Monday hauled boxes of evidence from the facility in an apparent escalation of a yearslong investigation that put a former warden and other employees behind bars for sexually abusing inmates. The federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed the leadership shakeup at FCI Dublin, saying in a statement that “recent developments have necessitated new executive employees be installed at the institution.” The agency wouldn’t specify what the developments…
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Federal Prison Authority Consulting Services to speak 7/10/23 on CCNCR
Source: cautionclick.com 7/7/23 Guest speaker Bruce Cameron, MS, LPC-S, LSOTP-S. will be on Caution Click’s monthly meeting on Monday, July 10. Mr. Cameron is the founder and lead program analyst for Federal Prison Authority. He will discuss his consulting services that will cover a wide range of information that may be helpful to many of us. He has helped people currently incarcerated, and post release. Some of his topics he will discuss are sex offender treatment, supervised release and deregistration evaluation. Click here to read Federal Prison Authority’s website. Click…
Read MoreFederal Prisons Are Discounting Inmates’ Sexual Assault Allegations Against Officers
Source: govexec.com 10/13/22 The federal Bureau of Prisons is regularly excluding credible inmate testimony making or corroborating allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against agency employees, according to a new report, which found the informal policy could embolden bad actors to continue their inapprorpiate behavior. The bureau’s Office of Internal Affairs will only consider inmate testimony when a case is accepted for criminal prosecution or if it is substantiated by video, conclusive forensic evidence or a confession. If a sexual assault allegation against an employee depends on an inmate’s account,…
Read MoreBOP backs down on the restrictive book policy
[handbasketnotes.blogspot.com 5/5/18] Good news. The federal Bureau of Prisons has rescinded the policy changes that would have made it more expensive and more difficult for inmates to receive books. Ann E. Marimow at the Washington Post reports: The restrictions were already in place in facilities in Virginia and California and were set to start this month at a prison in Florida. Under the rules, inmates in at least four facilities were required to order books only through a prison-approved vendor and, at three of the prisons, to pay an extra…
Read MoreYou’ve Got A Friend, But It’s Not U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions!
[blog.womenagainstregistry.org] U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke at a conference for the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Nashville, TN on Thursday, his focus, increasing the prison population! You would think that government would be more interested in decreasing prison population, wouldn’t you? The federal prison population has decreased from 220,000 to 180,000 over the past few years. To me, that would seem like a good thing, we’re getting a handle on crime and fairer sentencing. What part of that doesn’t Mr. Sessions get? He wants to pursue “longer”…
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