Federal Prison Staff Evade Security Searches, Slip Contraband into Facilities – IOTW Report

Federal Prison Staff Evade Security Searches, Slip Contraband into Facilities

Thursday, 19 August 2021, 16:15 MJA Uncategorized 10

Judicial Watch: In the latest of several troubling security lapses to rock the nation’s federal prison system, jail staff often enter facilities without being searched, contributing to a pandemic of contraband smuggled to inmates. Security video examined by investigators from the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (DOJ OIG) shows staff at a high-security facility entering during the night and walking around metal detectors without being screened. The breach is one of a multitude identified recently by the watchdog, which warns the DOJ of “urgent security concerns” in its famously inefficient security system at Bureau of Prisons (BOP) locations nationwide.

In all, there are 122 federal prisons throughout the U.S. that house some 155,554 inmates. The system has around 38,000 employees and the BOP claims to protect public safety by ensuring that federal offenders serve their sentences at “appropriately secure” facilities. The reality is that security failures have long been pervasive within the system. In the latest transgressions exposed by the OIG, BOP officials seem to justify their negligence by explaining that “only during the low manning times of the night shift” are staff “permitted to circumvent the search policy upon entering the institution.” Because the prison is not a minimum-security facility, the watchdog counters, all staff members and their belongings are required to be searched by electronic means before entry. “There is no exception in the BOP’s policy for staff that enter during the night shift or during other times when staffing is low,” the OIG writes in a report issued this month. Investigators determined that the security issues identified in the document increase the risk that staff will bring contraband into BOP facilities, thereby jeopardizing their safety and the security of inmates and staff. more

10 Comments on Federal Prison Staff Evade Security Searches, Slip Contraband into Facilities

  5. Oh, that really shocks me!! Federal employees acting heinously? What the hell, it would be news if they were the ONLY DAMN Feds following the rules and acting ethically!

    Hell, with the grifters of clowngress setting the pace and the debauched faux president and his stellar family showing the rewards of lying, cheating, debauchery and etc, what Fed or ANY level of government employee

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