Criminal Justice and Prison Conditions at the End of the Biden Administration

Joe Biden has left our national prison system worse than he found it--at every level.

I wrote in October that Joe Biden, in his four years as president, did literally nothing to improve the situation in prisons and jails across the country, either through the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), over which he has direct authority, or through enlightened policies that might filter down or set the standard in state prisons and in local jails.