Federal Bureau of Prisons

John KIRIAKOU
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is in a state of chaos.  Leadership changes, Covid-19, and criminal activity on the part of BOP officers and staff members has plunged the Justice Department’s largest and best-funded bureau into a scandal that, while it has not made the mainstream media, has harmed thousands of prisoners.

By Carl Takei | ACLU | January 13, 2015 The CIA’s chief interrogator called it “the closest thing he has seen to a dungeon.” At the agency’s COBALT detention site in Afghanistan – also known as the “Salt Pit” – detainees were kept in total darkness, shackled to the floors or walls of their cells, […]