Category: prisons

Biden Signs Election Executive Order to Increase Voting by Criminals

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Sunday altering the way the federal government handles elections, including by increasing voting and voter registration access for criminals in prison and on probation, according to the White House. “The order will direct the Attorney General to establish procedures to provide educational materials related to voter registration…


Biden Orders DOJ to Phase Out Use of Federally Funded Private Prisons

President Joe Biden on Tuesday directed the federal government to cease its reliance on federally funded private prisons, a move that renews an Obama-era policy. Under the executive order, the attorney general must decline to renew Justice Department (DOJ) contracts with privately operated criminal detention facilities. “To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based incentives…


Federal Prisons Placed Under Full-On Lockdown ‘In Light of Current Events’

Federal prisons throughout the United States have been placed under full-on lockdown indefinitely, officials said. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on Saturday announced “temporary security measures” to secure all 122 federal prison facilities “in light of current events occurring around the country.” The measures were implemented, according to the BOP, “out of an abundance of caution.”…


Bureau of Prisons Delivers COVID-19 Vaccine to 68 Facilities

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) said in a statement Monday that vaccine doses have now been delivered to 68 facilities across the United States. As of Jan. 11, there are 5,530 federal inmates and 2,013 BOP staff who have tested positive for COVID-19 nationwide, according to a BOP tracker. To date, there have been…


Orange County Sheriff Won’t Release Inmates, Despite Appeal Loss

More than one-third of Orange County’s jail population was COVID-19 positive Dec. 30, but Sheriff Don Barnes said he’ll fight the latest orders to release 1,800 inmates. Barnes was initially ordered Dec. 11 by an Orange County Supreme Court Judge to reduce the jail population by 50 percent. The sheriff responded to the order by…