In some cases, the report said, “horrific abuse” stretched out for months or even years, and “management failures enabled continued sexual abuse,” with some senior prison officials among those abusing women in their custody.
by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, painted a ghastly portrait of the treatment of female prisoners and the response by the federal agency tasked with their custody. A bipartisan investigation found that male Bureau of Prisons employees sexually abused female prisoners in at least two-thirds of the facilities that held them over the last decade.
“This situation is intolerable,” Sen. Jon Ossoff , who chairs the committee, said at the hearing Tuesday. “Sexual abuse of inmates is a gross abuse of human and constitutional rights and cannot be tolerated by the United States Congress.”The report released Tuesday notes that any sexual relations between Bureau of Prisons staff and inmates is illegal, regardless of consent.
This failure to work through cases, the report said, prevents accountability. In an interview with the panel, the internal affairs chief at the Bureau of Prisons said that the longer cases drag on, the more difficult it can be to substantiate allegations, the report said. to the committee Tuesday, she said they were adding more employees to the internal-affairs office, among other reforms.According to the report, there are 27 facilities where the Bureau of Prisons holds women, while two others have held women since 2012 but stopped. Sexual abuse was found in at least 19 of those facilities since 2012, the report said.In at least four facilities, the report said, “multiple women endured ongoing sexual abuse for months or years,” the report said.
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