The subcommittee will come to order. Today the subcommittee continues our bipartisan work investigating prisons and jails across United States. In july, we found corruption and abuse in the Justice System and questioned former director of the bureau of prisons. Despite a clear charge from congress, to determine who is dying and jails across the country, where they are dying and why they are dying. The Department Justice is failing to do so. This failure undermines efforts to address the urgent humanitarian crisis on behind bars across the country. Our investigation has revealed that last year alone according to gao analysis our request that the department of justice failed to reveal nearly 1000 deaths across the country. The true number is likely much higher. We will hear today from those whose loved ones died preventively while in custody. In both cases, sons and brothers died while they were pretrial detainees having been convicted of no crime. We will hear their grief and anger. Gri
Investigations will come to order. Today, the subcommittee continues our bipartisan work investigating conditions in prisons, jails, and Detention Centers across the United States. I thank the Ranking Member for his cooperation. In july, we released the findings of corruption, abuse, and misconduct in the federal prison system, and questioned the now former director of the federal bureau of prisons. Today, after a ten month my partisan investigation, we can reveal that despite a clear charge from congress to determine who is dying in prisons and jails across the country, where they are dying, and why they are dying, and the department of justice is failing to do so. This failure undermines efforts to address the urgent humanitarian crisis ongoing behind bars across the country. Our investigation has revealed that last year alone, according to g. A. O. Announces i requested, the department of justice failed to identify at least 998 deaths in custody, nearly 1000 uncounted deaths. The tr
The permanent subcommittee on investigations will come to order. Today, the subcommittee continues our bipartisan work investigating conditions in prisons, jails, and Detention Centers across the United States. I thank the Ranking Member for his cooperation. In july, we released the findings of corruption, abuse, and misconduct in the federal prison system, and questioned the now former director of the federal bureau of prisons. Today, after a ten month my partisan investigation, we can reveal that despite a clear charge from congress to determine who is dying in prisons and jails across the country, where they are dying, and why they are dying, and the department of justice is failing to do so. This failure undermines efforts to address the urgent humanitarian crisis ongoing behind bars across the country. Our investigation has revealed that last year alone, according to g. A. O. Announces i requested, the department of justice failed to identify at least 998 deaths in custody, nearly
BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana took center stage at a Congressional hearing in Washington this week as senators grilled Department of Justice officials over the feds’ failure to track fatalities