The Justice Department is taking immediate action to crack down on sexual misconduct by federal prisons employees and improve handling of complaints, following an internal review that found an urgent need for change. However, the agency’s union took issue with how the review was conducted.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons received hundreds of complaints of sexual abuse by its employees over the past five years and while not all were “meritorious or prosecutable, the volume alone is a strong signal of the need for attention to this problem,” said a report published on November 2 by a working group of senior Justice officials that was ordered by the deputy attorney general.
“I appreciate the prompt delivery of this report, and I welcome its recommendations,” wrote Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, in a memo on November 2. “The working group identified a ‘need for immediate actions to address the department's approach to sexual misconduct perpetrated by BOP staff, as well as the importance of further review to consider longer-term and more systemic-changes.’” She ordered various immediate actions to implement some of the working group’s 50-plus recommendations that span the themes of prevention, reporting, investigations, prosecutions and discipline.
Specifically, she asked BOP Director Colette Peters to share the working group’s report across the bureau and send a bureau-wide message underscoring the seriousness of sexual misconduct and that it won’t be tolerated; instruct...
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