Five U.S. senators are demanding that the Bureau of Prisons director provide them with information on how the agency prepared to close the troubled, all-women's prison in Dublin, including written plans to its employees on the “safe and humane release from custody.
Five U.S. senators are demanding that the Bureau of Prisons director provide them with information on how the agency prepared to close the troubled, all-women's prison in Dublin, including written plans to its employees on the "safe and humane release from custody." In a letter sent Wednesday to BOP Director Colette S.
Over the last several days, some of these women's families called their congress members to ask for help. Women described being shackled so tight they were bruised, being screamed at and told they were "whining bitches," and kept in the extreme cold and heat as bus drivers and officers blamed them for the prison shutting down.
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