Senate subcommittee report sums up 10-month investigation.
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a 25-page report last week, documenting their 10-month-long investigation into the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recordings of state prison and arrest-related deaths. They found that 70% of their records filed in 2021 were missing at least one data field required by law and that the department had failed to count at least 990 prison and arrest-related deaths in the last year alone.
“Of the 990 uncounted deaths, 341 were prison deaths disclosed on states’ public websites and 649 were arrest-related deaths disclosed in a reliable, public database,” the subcommittee wrote. The investigation was conducted in collaboration with the Government Accountability Office, Congress’ investigative watchdog organization.
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For Senator Ossoff as he chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
- For the members of the subcommittee as they provide federal oversight.
- For Director Colette Peters as she seeks to improve the operations of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Sources: AP, Reuters
