Atlanta, Georgia: Federal Government Under Fire Over Conditions at Atlanta Federal Prison

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Federal Government Under Fire Over Conditions at Atlanta Federal Prison
Senators allege Bureau of Prisons officials turned a blind eye to rapidly deteriorating conditions at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta.

2 August 2022

Testifying before lawmakers on Tuesday, outgoing Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Michael Carvajal came under fire from Democratic and Republican Senators due to conditions at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta. The hearing was held to present findings from a months-long bipartisan investigation into conditions at one of the nation's most troubled federal prisons. The report, expected for release later this year, describes an agency and a penitentiary mired in dysfunction. "Gross misconduct persisted at this facility for at least nine years," said Sen. Jon Ossoff (D–Ga.), who chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. "Much of the damning information revealing misconduct, ...

Federal Government Under Fire Over Conditions at Atlanta Federal Prison

Senators allege Bureau of Prisons officials turned a blind eye to rapidly deteriorating conditions at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta.

reason.com

 

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Will a Federal Investigation Reveal the Truth About Deaths At USP Atlanta?
Sirrena Buie’s 26-year-old son died at the federal prison in 2017. Five years later, she is still searching for answers.

14 August 2022

Sirrena Buie satat her kitchen table, scrolling through her texts. She was looking for a message from a man who might have information related to her son’s death. Twenty-six-year-old Kedric Buie had died five years earlier at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta — found “unresponsive,” in the clinical parlance of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Officials said that he’d died of a heart attack. But his mother was convinced that he had been killed. After pursuing legal avenues that went nowhere, Sirrena turned to social media, where she posted videos telling her story. She urged anyone who might know something ...

Will a Federal Investigation Reveal the Truth About Deaths at USP Atlanta?

Sirrena Buie’s 26-year-old son died at the federal prison in 2017. Five years later, she is still searching for answers.

theintercept.com

 

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Federal Prison Officials Knew of Misconduct, Corruption, and Abuse, Senate Investigation Finds
Sen. Jon Ossoff is the first Democrat to subpoena a member of the Biden administration, BOP Director Michael Carvajal, over reports of neglected and frequent suicides.

26 July 2022

When a detainee at a federal prison facility in Atlanta, Georgia, was found hanging from a ligature in his cell in November 2018, prison staff had to borrow a razor blade from another detainee in order to cut them down. The scene was one of several alarming accounts of conditions at U.S. Penitentiary Atlanta detailed Tuesday during a Senate subcommittee hearing. Public reporting has described several years’ worth of security and health issues at the facility, including deaths, escapes, corruption, and a smuggling ring. According to congressional investigators who spoke at the hearing, senior officials at the federal prison complex ...

Federal Prison Officials Knew of Misconduct, Corruption, and Abuse, Senate Investigation Finds

Sen. Jon Ossoff is the first Democrat to subpoena a member of the Biden administration, BOP Director Michael Carvajal, over reports of neglected and frequent suicides.

theintercept.com