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How Prison Agency Under Biden Freed Inmates Early, Wasted Tons Of Taxpayer Money

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Federal prison officials cost taxpayers millions of dollars and prematurely freed inmates through faulty enforcement of a criminal reform program, a federal probe found.

The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) overcharged by $106 million for inmate phone calls and failed to provide reentry programs to 9,819 early-release inmates between fiscal years 2022 and 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general’s office said Thursday. The mistakes stemmed from the implementation of the bipartisan First Step Act, which President Donald Trump passed in 2018, the investigation found. However, the BOP is complying with the watchdog agency’s suggestions for fixing the deficiencies, according to the report.

The BOP did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment. The White House declined to comment.

Trump’s law lets eligible inmates earn time credits toward early release if they complete educational “Recidivism Reduction” coursework or “Productive Activities” programs such as group therapy or exercise sessions. Inmates may also earn free telephone minutes for participating in First Step Act programs.

Trump and the law’s other supporters advertised it as a way to reduce recidivism through leniency and rehabilitation for criminals. Trump has championed a more pro-incarceration approach in his second term, calling out “pro-crime politicians” who release “dangerous repeat offenders,” flooding liberal cities with more law enforcement agents and moving to strip funds from jurisdictions with cashless bail policies.

The Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to implement the First Step Act over a two-year period spun out of control, according to the DOJ inspector general.

Its missteps included “reimbursing itself more than $100 million over what it calculated to be the cost of providing the telephone calls and moving appropriations that were tied to a specific year into a revolving fund with no time limits on spending,” the inspector general’s office wrote. “Collectively, these actions raise potential appropriations law issues.”

The BOP also gave the free phone minutes regardless of whether inmates partook of reentry programs, nullifying the supposed incentive for participating in the programs, according to the inspector general.

“Nearly one-quarter of the over 41,000 inmates who were released using applied [First Step Act] time credits between FYs 2022 and 2024 had not completed a single FSA program,” the report found. The BOP’s failure to staff roughly half of the roles authorized to implement the law by July 2024 also hurt its efficiency, the document says.

Not all hope is lost for the First Step Act’s implementation, the inspector general’s office said.

The BOP is in the process of implementing seven recommendations from the inspector general to clarify its spending processes and verify that inmates are taking the required reentry programs, according to the report.

AUTHOR

Hudson Crozier

DCNF Crime and Extremism Reporter

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Jaw-Dropping Number Of Inmates In Women’s Prisons Are Actually Men

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday barring biological males — who account for 15% of inmates in women’s federal prisons — from occupying women’s federal detention facilities.

The order, which prohibits federal funds for gender transition medical procedures, drugs and treatment, mandates that the federal government only recognize male and female sexes and requires inmates to be housed according to their biological sex. Of the 10,047 total inmates in women’s federal facilities, 1,538 are biological males, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

“The Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers,” the order reads. It adds that no federal funds shall be expended for “any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.”

The order also reversed the past policy of allowing biological males into ostensibly “single-sex” domestic abuse shelters for women and mandated that government-issued identification reflect the bearer’s biological sex — meaning no “X” marker designating an undefined or unlisted gender will be recognized.

The Independent Women’s Forum, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group, celebrated the end of what it called “utter unfairness of allowing men into women’s spaces.”

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) decried the order as “a plan to erase transgender people’s existence under the law.”

Several pro-LGBT advocacy organizations, such as Lambda Legal, have already signaled an intention to mount a legal challenge against the executive order, arguing it is unconstitutional and violates existing law.

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz grilled Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn for allowing a biological male — and convicted serial child rapist — into women’s facility in May, accusing Netburn of being “willing to subjugate the rights of individuals to satisfy your political ideology.”

Several incidents of rape and sexual assault involving biological male inmates in female facilities have surfaced in recent years. A biological male at Rikers Island in New York City was convicted in 2022 of raping a female inmate while housed in the women’s prison wing. A similar case occurred in 2024, where another biological male was convicted in California of raping a female inmate in the showers of the prison’s female facilities.

It is unclear when the transfer of biological men to men’s prison facilities will begin.

AUTHOR

Thomas English

Contributor.

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