A few short weeks after AG bar visited the Edgefield prison it had to be placed on a month-long lock-down (an unprecedented duration for that facility and exceptional for any similarly situated facility).
Tag: Bureau of Prisons
Fight for Change by Wayne T. Dowdy
Update: July 30, 2023: Since I posted this blog, I started a YouTube channel. Please Like and Subscribe. Be sure to select the Notification Bell to receive my latest content: StraightfromthePen. Thank you! Congressperson Trey Gowdy Chaired the Oversight Committee on the Bureau of Prisons, December 13, 2017. The then B.O.P. Director, Mark S. Inch,…
Prison Reform Progress
60-MINUTES’ Correspondent, Bill Whitaker, on March 31, 2019, reported one aspect of prison reform in America. I shared the words of Bill Whitaker with inmates in the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons, in case the ones who signed up for the WTD4U newsletter did not watch the 60-MINUTES’ interview, by Bill Whitaker, with staff…
WAR and REENTRY
by Wayne T. Dowdy [Updated with note in text body on March 1, 2019] GENERAL SURRENDERS: Mark S. Inch, former two-star, retired-general, surrendered his post as BOP Director on May 18, 2018. Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Hugh J. Hurwitz as acting BOP Director. Mr. Hurwitz was the Deputy Director of Reentry Services. Several sources…