If Colette Peters is really intent on cleaning up the U.S. Bureau of Prisons she has her work cut out for her. Things are not going well on her watch so far.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: US Prison Chief’s Dim Prospects
Category: Prisons
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Animal-Grade Prison Food Indicts US Society
Prisoners in the U.S. face chronic hunger and illness due to substandard and disgusting food, as new Bureau of Prisons director Collette Peters reportedly battles bureaucracy to reform the system.
Free After 17 Years in Prison For a Rape He Didn’t Commit
The United States has a long history of wrongfully convicting and imprisoning people only to release them after years in prison after new evidence emerges. It has just happened in the U.K. too.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Murder of ‘Whitey’ Bulger
The Bureau of Prison’s treatment of the former Mob boss, who was 89 at the time of his death, was at least incompetent and perhaps criminal.
UN Expert Says Close Gitmo After Historic Visit
U.N. Special Rapporteur Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, the first such expert to visit the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison, said those responsible for the U.S. “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment of detainees there should be held accountable.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Insanity of Solitary Confinement
The research on its effects on mental health is clear: Nothing good comes of solitary. It is a living example of the failure of the both the U.S. prison system and the U.S. mental healthcare system.
A Kingly Proposal: Letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III
The imprisoned journalist invites the new U.K. monarch, on the occasion of his coronation, to visit “his own kingdom within a kingdom: His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh.”
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Scrap the US Bureau of Prisons
Employee misconduct runs rampant in the largest bureau run by the Department of Justice and no amount of “congressional oversight” is going to help.
Chris Hedges: Lynching the Jan. 6 Deplorables
The criminal investigation undertaken by the federal government against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol is polarizing the country and shredding civil liberties.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Covid & the Way of Death in US Prisons
If we don’t care about prisoners on any normal day, then why would we care about them when a pandemic is spreading through the system?