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 think the Ranking Member for hiss cooperation. Prin july we released findings f corruption and abuse and misconduct in the federal prison system and questioned themhi now former director of the federal bureau of prisons. Today after a ten month bipartisan investigation we can reveal that despite a charge from congress to determine who is dying in prisons and jails across the country, where and why they are dying the department of justice is failing to do so. The failure undermines efforts to address the urgent humanitarian crisis ongoing behind bars across the country. Our investigation has revealed the last year alone according to the gao analysis i request the department of justice failed to identify at least 990 deaths in custody, nearly 1,000 uncounted deaths and the number
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