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                 Diasabra 6 augustus 2022

                                                                    Senate to hold hearing on crisis-plagued

                                                                                             federal prisons


                                                            (AP) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary
                                                            Committee  said  Friday  he  plans  to  hold  an
                                                            oversight  hearing  on  the  crisis-plagued  fed-
                                                            eral  Bureau  of  Prisons  after  The  Associated
              “Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada   Press reported that the agency is keeping its
              Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega.   embattled ex-director on the payroll as an ad-
              E ta hibami na awa trankil,                   viser to his successor.
              Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
              Salmo: 23                                     Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who demanded Michael
                                                            Carvajal be fired last November amid myriad fail-
              Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta anuncia  fayecimento   ings, told the AP in a statement he was dismayed
                                                            by continuing misconduct within the agency and
              di:
                                                            by its unwillingness to completely cut ties with the
                                                            former director.
                                                            Carvajal submitted his resignation in January but
                                                            remained in charge of the Bureau of Prisons until
                                                            the the new director, Colette Peters, was sworn in
                                                            on Tuesday following a lengthy search process.

                                                            On Thursday, the AP reported that Carvajal is stay-
                                                            ing on through the end of the month as a senior
                                                            adviser to Peters, the former director of Oregon's
                                                            state prison system.
                                                            After speaking with Peters this week, Durbin said
                                                            he's "hopeful for serious reforms at BOP," but it is
                                                            time to move on from Carvajal's failed leadership.  Carvajal's  two  years  in  charge.  She  has  pledged
                                                                                                            greater transparency and accountability for the Bu-
              Inocencio A. Ras                              Durbin didn't provide a date for the hearing or say  reau  of  Prisons,  the  Justice  Department's  largest
              Cariñosamente jama: “Betico”                  what witnesses might be called or topics discussed.  component with a budget of more than $8 billion.
              *08-07-1950 †03-08-2022                       The Senate returns from its August recess after La-
                                                            bor Day.                                        Carvajal,  a  Trump  administration  holdover,  sub-
                                                                                                            mitted  his  resignation  on  Jan.  5  amid  increasing
              Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia              Peters has pledged to overhaul the federal agency,  scrutiny over his leadership in the wake of AP re-
              despues.                                      which  was  plagued  by  myriad  problems  during  porting  that  uncovered  widespread  problems  at
                                                                                                            the  Bureau  of  Prisons,  including  rampant  sexual
                                                                                                            assault at a California women's prison, widespread
                                                                                                            staff  criminal  conduct,  dozens  of  escapes,  deaths
                                                                                                            and  staffing  woes  hampering  responses  to  emer-
                                                                                                            gencies.

                                                                                                            Durbin demanded Carvajal's firing last November
                                                                                                            after the AP revealed that more than 100 Bureau of
                                                                                                            Prisons workers have been arrested, convicted or
                                                                                                            sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019. Durbin
                                                                                                            doubled down on his call for Carvajal's removal in
                                                                                                            a speech on the Senate floor last December.
                                        “Señor ta mi          Laga tur loke ta spera mi ta bunita
                                      wardador, mi’n tin      Laga tur locual cu mi encontra na             "Since day one, Director Carvajal has shown no in-
                                         falta di nada        caminda ta bunita                             tention of reforming the institution," Durbin said.
                                     Den cunucu di yerba      Laga tur locual cu mi laga atras keda         "For years, the Bureau of Prisons has been plagued
                                      berde e ta ponemi                                                     by corruption, chronic understaffing, and miscon-
                                           sosega.            bunita y
                                     E ta hibami na awa       Laga esakinan termina den tur buniteza.       duct by high-ranking officials."
                                           trankil,           Cado Wever.
                                      Pa mi bolbe haña                                                      By  then,  Carvajal  was  already  on  the  hot  seat.
                                           forsa”.                                                          Biden  administration  officials  had  discussions  in
                                          Salmo: 23           Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta anuncia       the spring of 2021 about whether to remove Car-
                                                              fayecimento di:                               vajal,  after  the  AP  reported  that  widespread  cor-
                                                                                                            rectional officer vacancies were forcing prisons to
                                       Cu dolor na nos                                                      expand the use of cooks, teachers, nurses and other
                                       curason, nos ta
                                    participa fayecimento                                                   workers to guard inmates.
                                       di nos ser stima:
                                                                                                            In one of his final acts as director, Carvajal clashed
                                                                                                            with senators at a hearing last week as he refused to
                                                                                                            accept responsibility for a culture of corruption and
                        Lisette N. Webb                                                                     misconduct that has plagued his agency for years.

                    Cariñosamente yama “Lis”                                                                Carvajal, testifying before the Senate's Permanent
                                                                                                            Subcommittee  on  Investigations,  insisted  he  had
                   *07-07-1973 - †28-07-2022                                                                been  shielded  from  problems  by  his  underlings.
                                                                                                            But he had been copied on emails, and some of the
                                                              Mario Asencion Tromp                          troubles were detailed in reports generated by the
                                                              Mihor conoci como: “Panachi of Joon”          agency's headquarters.
               Acto di entiero lo wordo                       *02-07-2022 - †04-08-2022                     Carvajal blamed the size and structure of the Bu-

                                                                                                            reau of Prisons for his ignorance on issues such as
                      anuncia despues                         Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues.     inmate suicides, sexual abuse, and the free flow of
                                                                                                            drugs, weapons and other contraband.
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