Federal reports, including three this month, document many problems in U.S. prisons, including with solitary confinement, violence and shoddy record keeping.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons faces increasing fire from independent watchdogs for dangerous housing conditions and failing to correct problems for years.
“The bigger picture is that the Federal Bureau of Prisons has been a profoundly broken agency for a very long time now,” said David C. Fathi, American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project director.Even keeping people alive is a challenge for the prison system.
The report generally covers fiscal 2018 through 2022, except for an October 2023 “snapshot,” when about 12,000 people, 8 percent of the federal prison population, were in units that generally kept them isolated in their cells for all but one hour a day. “BOP has made slow progress,” GAO auditors found, in part because prison officials have not assigned appropriate staff to implement the recommendations and haven’t established timelines to get the job done.
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