More than 100 federal prison workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, an AP investigation found. And the Bureau of Prisons has turned a blind eye, failing to suspend some officers arrested for crimes.
In interviews with the AP, more than a dozen bureau staff members have also raised concerns that the agency’s disciplinary system has led to an outsize focus on alleged misconduct by rank-and-file employees and they say allegations of misconduct made against senior executives and wardens are more easily brushed aside.
At the federal prison in Yazoo City, Mississippi, the official tasked with investigating staff misconduct has been the subject of numerous complaints and multiple arrests. The bureau has not removed him from the position or suspend him — a deviation from standard Justice Department practice. The same official was arrested in another instance when a different employee contacted the local sheriff’s office, accusing him of stalking and harassing her. The AP is not identifying the official by name because some of the criminal charges were later dropped.
A bureau spokesperson, Kristie Breshears, declined to discuss the case or address why the official was never suspended.
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