It's a Bad Year For the Bureau of Prisons...
...and an equally bad one for most every other "corrections" entity
I’ve written a lot about the corrupt, inefficient, and failing Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP.) Most recently, the mainstream media have lauded the BOP’s new director, Colette Peters, who was brought in to “clean the place up.” Peters is a former successful director of the Oregon Department of Corrections. The idea was that, rather than promote somebody from within the BOP to lead it, which has been done time and time again and which has failed time and time again, maybe a fresh face from outside could bring a new perspective and could turn the BOP around.
That hasn’t happened. If anything, Peters has been ignored by her subordinates and, in many cases, circumvented. While by all accounts, she’s a very nice person who means well and who really does want to improve federal prisons, she is powerless to do so. And in the absence of real accountability and any meaningful oversight from Capitol Hill, she is doomed to fail. If 2023 has been any indication, that failure is going to be clear.
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