COVID-19 entered the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons without chains or restraints in early 2020. Since then the United States Attorney General ordered the BOP to place more inmates on home confinement to reduce the risk of exposure to vulnerable inmates but judges ordered the release of more of the incarcerated than the BOP.
As is normal for the Backwards On Purpose agency, very few inmates at risk were placed on home confinement, many who have now died because of the incompetence of their keepers.
Several of my incarcerated subscribers expressed concerns over the lack of response by BOP officials to protect them from contracting the virus. I sent in copies of memorandums and reported claims presented to the public about all that the BOP was doing to comply with CDC guidelines to prevent/control the spread of COVID-19.
Numerous subscribers responded and stated that the information was all lies, that staff wasn’t wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as masks and gloves, even while feeding the meals, some openly coughing while serving food. Various media sources reported staff complaints about not having PPE and feeling at risk because of the lack of PPE and mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic inside the confines of the BOP.
BOP officials basically ignored Attorney General Barr’s instruction to release more inmates on home confinement. That is the same behavior as BOP officials had displayed when eligible prisoners were dying inside the system, rather than being released, when Congress urged the BOP to expand their Compassionate Release program, long before COVID-19 kicked in the doors and began taking the lives of the captives.
The BOP changed the controlling policy but did not change their practices. The latest revision of the Compassionate Release program statement is as follows:
Policy Statement NUMBER 5050.50
DATE January 17, 2019,
Compassionate Release/Reduction in Sentence: Procedures for Implementation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 3582 and 4205(g)
That is the same BS mentality of the BOP officials, who did modify the Compassionate Release/Reduction in Sentence program statement but did not follow its guidance, which has now lead to the deaths of over 105 of their captives and the infection of several thousand.
Court officials have often stepped in and ordered the release of ill prisoners the BOP had refused to release, since Congress also passed into la the First Step Act that gave the federal courts jurisdiction (the power to act) to intervene when petitioners filed claims to challenge the denial of their request for compassionate release.
Prior to about 2016, the courts were powerless because the governing statutes gave the final say to BOP officials, the same ones who take an oath to keep men and women inside prisons for the duration of the given sentences, until death do they part.
(Because it is not relevant to this blog and is information easily found by those reading this online, I won’t list articles or sources of information on the above content.)
INFORMATION FOR THE INCARCERATED
I am concluding this blog with some of the actual information I sent in to my subscribers on August 1, 2020 (I send in a variety of information but COVID-19 reports are now regular based upon popular demand).
Because of limits in Corrlinks (see Corrlinks Process on this website), I have to modify the information I collect from the BOP website and other sources to make content Corrlinks’ friendly. With this post, I sent the content inside in two parts because it wouldn’t fit into one email.
The information-starved, incarcerated individuals, often express gratitude for the content I send in free of charge to keep them informed about what is going on outside of their restricted environments. I am happy to be of service to those I sympathize with because of my history on the Inside.
08/03/2020: If viewing the following on a cellphone, the landscape view corrects data shown in what may be distorted rows and columns. I apologize for the inconvenience.
August 1, 2020, COVID-19 Update
Confirmed active cases at 106 BOP facilities and 43 Residential Reentry Centers (No RRCs included in this report)
https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/
08/01/2020 – The BOP has 128,595 federal inmates in BOP-managed institutions and 13,806 in community-based facilities. The BOP staff complement is approximately 36,000. There are 2,308 federal inmates and 503 BOP staff who have confirmed positive test results for COVID-19 nationwide. Currently, 8,253 inmates and 708 staff have recovered. There have been 105 federal inmate deaths and 1 BOP staff member death attributed to COVID-19 disease. Of the inmate deaths, 4 occurred while on home confinement.
[To read numbers: the left column under the facility is Inmate confirmed cases (I), next is Staff (S), the third from left is Inmate Deaths (ID), the fourth column is Staff Deaths (SD); the fifth column is Inmates Recovered (IR) and the last Staff Recovered (SR).
Facility I.P. S.P. I.D. S.D. I.R. S.R. City State
Butner Low FCI 77 2 16 1 575 14 Butner NC
Seagoville FCI 549 12 3 0 769 14 Seagoville TX
Carswell FMC 244 2 3 0 296 1 Fort Worth TX
Coleman Low FCI 174 19 0 0 4 2 Sumterville FL
Coleman Medium FCI 129 29 1 0 11 0 Sumterville FL
Miami FCI 95 23 0 0 3 0 Miami FL
Miami FDC 86 15 1 0 1 20 Miami FL
Victorville Medium I FCI 78 7 0 0 71 0 Victorville CA
Butner Low FCI 75 1 16 1 575 15 Butner NC
Marion USP 71 1 0 0 4 2 Marion IL
Edgefield FCI 65 20 0 0 0 1 Edgefield SC
Elkton FCI 63 2 9 0 938 51 Lisbon OH
Victorville Medium II FCI 48 8 0 0 2 2 Victorville CA
Victorville USP 46 12 0 0 46 1 Victorville CA
Forrest City Low FCI 38 3 0 0 641 4 Forrest City AR
Beaumont Low FCI 35 1 0 0 469 0 Beaumont TX
Lewisburg USP 35 0 0 0 0 1 Lewisburg PA
Coleman I USP 28 23 0 0 0 2 Sumterville FL
Loretto FCI 19 6 0 0 8 1 Loretto PA
Yazoo City USP 18 7 1 0 56 12 Yazoo City MS
Oklahoma City FTC 16 5 1 0 85 0 Oklahoma City OK
Beaumont Medium FCI 15 6 0 0 45 0 Beaumont TX
Guaynabo MDC 15 0 0 0 0 0 Guaynabo PR
Tucson FCI 15 6 0 0 0 1 Tucson AZ
Manchester FCI 14 9 0 0 33 0 Manchester KY
Three Rivers FCI 11 0 0 0 79 0 Three Rivers TX
Forrest City Medium FCI 9 10 0 0 3 5 Forrest City AR
San Diego MCC 9 1 0 0 2 0 San Diego CA
Fairton FCI 8 0 0 0 95 7 Fairton NJ
Fort Worth FMC 8 8 12 0 579 6 Fort Worth TX
Lompoc USP 7 0 2 0 164 24 Lompoc CA
New York MCC 7 5 0 0 16 41 New York NY
Tallahassee FCI 7 8 0 0 0 1 Tallahassee FL
Atlanta USP 6 8 0 0 14 8 Atlanta GA
Butner FMC 6 2 0 0 5 13 Butner NC
Talladega FCI 6 6 0 0 2 7 Talladega AL
Englewood FCI 5 0 0 0 4 1 Littleton CO
Houston FDC 5 5 0 0 7 0 Houston TX
Aliceville FCI 4 8 0 0 10 9 Aliceville AL
Bastrop FCI 4 5 0 0 0 2 Bastrop TX
Jesup FCI 4 16 1 0 252 3 Jesup GA
Oakdale I FCI 4 8 7 0 206 20 Oakdale LA
Atwater USP 3 6 0 0 0 3 Atwater CA
Memphis FCI 3 2 0 0 6 12 Memphis TN
Pollock FCI 3 2 0 0 0 1 Pollock LA
Pollock USP 3 9 0 0 0 2 Pollock LA
Springfield MCFP 3 1 0 0 1 0 Springfield MO
Terminal Island FCI 3 5 10 0 645 17 San Pedro CA
Beaumont USP 2 3 0 0 0 1 Beaumont TX
Bennettsville FCI 2 7 0 0 7 5 Bennettsville SC
Butner Medium I FCI 2 2 9 0 202 30 Butner NC
Florence FCI 2 1 0 0 0 3 Florence CO
Fort Dix FCI 2 0 0 0 37 5 Joint Base Mdl NJ
Los Angeles MDC 2 3 0 0 2 2 Los Angeles CA
Milan FCI 2 1 3 0 98 55 Milan MI
Sheridan FCI 2 0 0 0 0 0 Sheridan OR
Waseca FCI 2 2 0 0 2 0 Waseca MN
Allenwood Low FCI 1 0 0 0 0 0 Allenwood PA
Berlin FCI 1 0 0 0 0 0 Berlin NH
Chicago MCC 1 5 0 0 138 26 Chicago IL
Danbury FCI 1 2 1 0 89 61 Danbury CT
Devens FMC 1 1 2 0 50 6 Ayer MA
Dublin FCI 1 3 0 0 0 3 Dublin CA
Greenville FCI 1 4 0 0 1 0 Greenville IL
Herlong FCI 1 0 0 0 0 3 Herlong CA
Honolulu FDC 1 0 0 0 0 0 Honolulu HI
La Tuna FCI 1 5 0 0 0 7 Anthony TX
Leavenworth USP 1 1 0 0 0 5 Leavenworth KS
Marianna FCI 1 7 0 0 0 1 Marianna FL
McCreary USP 1 3 0 0 1 2 Pine Knot KY
Montgomery FPC 1 1 0 0 0 2 Montgomery AL
Otisville FCI 1 1 0 0 26 14 Otisville NY
Pekin FCI 1 0 0 0 0 0 Pekin IL
Philadelphia FDC 1 2 0 0 3 3 Philadelphia PA
Phoenix FCI 1 5 0 0 19 9 Phoenix AZ
Sandstone FCI 1 0 0 0 0 0 Sandstone MN
Schuylkill FCI 1 0 0 0 0 0 Minersville PA
SeaTac FDC 1 1 0 0 0 0 Seattle WA
Williamsburg FCI 1 4 0 0 0 0 Salters SC
Yazoo City Medium FCI 1 5 0 0 7 10 Yazoo City MS
Allenwood Medium FCI 0 0 0 0 0 1 White Deer PA
Allenwood USP 0 1 0 0 0 1 Allenwood PA
Ashland FCI 0 0 0 0 0 1 Ashland KY
Beckley FCI 0 0 0 0 0 1 Beaver WV
Big Sandy USP 0 2 0 0 0 0 Inez KY
Big Spring FCI 0 6 0 0 0 0 Big Spring TX
Brooklyn MDC 0 1 0 0 12 41 Brooklyn NY
Bryan FPC 0 2 0 0 1 0 Bryan TX
Butner Medium II FCI 0 1 0 0 3 1 Butner NC
Canaan USP 0 0 0 0 0 4 Waymart PA
Coleman II USP 0 14 0 0 2 2 Sumterville FL
Cumberland FCI 0 0 0 0 6 5 Cumberland
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Duluth FPC 0 0 0 0 1 0 Duluth MN
El Reno FCI 0 6 0 0 1 1 El Reno OK
Estill FCI 0 10 0 0 0 0 Estill SC
Gilmer FCI 0 0 0 0 5 0 Glenville WV
Hazelton FCI 0 3 0 0 0 2 Bruceton Mills WV
Hazelton USP 0 5 0 0 0 5 Bruceton Mills WV
Lee USP 0 1 0 0 0 1 Pennington Gap VA
Lexington FMC 0 0 8 0 227 11 Lexington KY
Lompoc FCI 0 1 2 0 809 16 Lompoc CA
McDowell FCI 0 0 0 0 0 2 Welch WV
Mendota FCI 0 6 0 0 1 3 Mendota CA
Morgantown FCI 0 0 0 0 0 1 Morgantown WV
Oakdale II FCI 0 8 1 0 7 6 Oakdale LA
Oxford FCI 0 3 0 0 1 1 Oxford WI
Pensacola FPC 0 2 0 0 0 1 Pensacola FL
Petersburg Low FCI 0 0 0 0 0 2 Hopewell VA
Ray Brook FCI 0 0 0 0 12 10 Ray Brook NY
Rochester FMC 0 1 0 0 0 1 Rochester MN
Safford FCI 0 2 0 0 0 0 Safford AZ
Terre Haute FCI 0 0 0 0 1 2 Terre Haute IN
Terre Haute USP 0 0 1 0 8 0 Terre Haute IN
Texarkana FCI 0 3 0 0 0 2 Texarkana TX
Thomson USP 0 0 0 0 3 1 Thomson IL
Tucson USP 0 4 0 0 0 2 Tucson AZ
Yazoo City Low FCI 0 4 2 0 96 9 Yazoo City MS
Private Facilities
Privately-managed prisons are secure institutions operated by private companies under contract and oversight of the BOP. The majority of federal inmates in private prisons are sentenced criminal aliens who will be deported upon completion of their sentence. Unlike federal inmates housed in BOP facilities, the contractor is responsible for the medical care and the costs associated with providing those services.
The BOP has 14,610 inmates in Privately-Managed Facilities. There are 101 inmates who have open lab-confirmed positive cases. 310 inmates have recovered. Full breakdown and additional details are below:
Facility IP ID IR City State
D. Ray James CI 73 0 12 Folkston GA
Great Plains CI 12 1 85 Hinton OK
Giles W. Dalby CI 10 1 72 Post TX
Rivers CI 4 0 20 Winton NC
McRae CI 2 1 14 Mcrae Helena GA
North Lake CI 0 2 107 Baldwin MI
All inmates are being appropriately treated and isolated per CDC guidelines.