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Jasmine Crockett: “Reports by the Justice Department's inspector general…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Congressional Hearing on Bureau of Prisons Staffing and Safety Challenges with Jasmine Crockett

Published | Video Starts at 04:11

Wanting to place even more of a strain on the system by trying to house migrants and children in Bureau facilities. It's absolutely ridiculous. Let me be clear. This isn't just a staff issue. It's a life or death issue. Reports by the Justice Department's inspector general detailed how in over a third of the inmate suicides that occurred between fiscal years 2014 to 2021, BOP staff didn't sufficiently conduct the required inmate rounds or counts. to check on the inmates. Let me tell y'all something. Realizing this fact took me back. (04:11–04:30)

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Asserts that BOP staff failed to conduct required inmate rounds in over a third of suicides from 2014 to 2021.

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