From The United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In April 2022, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (“PSI” or “the
Subcommittee”) launched a bipartisan investigation into sexual abuse of female prisoners in custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”).
The Subcommittee reviewed non-public BOP and whistleblower documents, and it
conducted more than two dozen interviews with senior BOP leaders, whistleblowers, and survivors of sexual abuse. The Subcommittee found:
BOP employees sexually abused female prisoners in at least two-thirds (19 of 29 facilities) of federal prisons that have held women over the past decade.
BOP has failed to successfully implement the Prison Rape Elimination Act (“PREA”). It failed to prevent, detect, and stop recurring sexual abuse in at least four federal prisons, including abuse by senior prison officials. At FCI Dublin, for example, the former Warden and Chaplain both sexually abused female prisoners.
BOP management failures enabled continued sexual abuse of female prisoners by BOP’s own employees.
BOP Office of Internal Affairs’ (“BOP OIA” or “OIA”) investigative practices are seriously flawed. There is currently a backlog of 8,000 internal affairs cases, including at least hundreds of sexual abuse cases.
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