Durbin Q&A During Senate Judic Committee Hearing on Deaths in Federal Prisons

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Colette Peters and Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Examining and Preventing Deaths of Incarcerated Individuals in Federal Prisons.” The hearing examined myriad issues related to the operation and management of BOP that contributed to deaths in custody, such as the overuse of solitary confinement, BOP employee misconduct, inadequate medical care, poor facilities maintenance, and staffing shortages.