60 Minutes on the Federal Bureau of Prisons: “An Agency in Crisis”

January 29, 2024

60 Minutes went inside a federal women’s prison where inmates had a message for the crisis-plagued Bureau of Prisons: ‘Fix it.’ Cecilia Vega reports. …

“A series of government investigations has found the bureau’s workforce is dangerously understaffed and, inside its women’s prisons, there is an alarming pattern of abuse.

“Colette Peters is in charge of fixing the Bureau of Prisons. She’s the sixth director in six years.”

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Read the full transcript at CBSNews.com.

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