The Federal Prison System is in Crisis




The Takeaway show

Summary: <p>An <a href="https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-crime-prisons-only-on-ap-c7a1cfc4aee226570c375fc015ee322f">ongoing Associated Press investigation</a> into the Federal Bureau of Prisons is uncovering rampant employee misconduct, coverups, under-staffing and neglect across the agency's 122 prisons. We speak with <a href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/staff/keri-blakinger">The Marshall Project</a> reporter, Keri Blakinger, and president of the AFGE Local 506 union for correctional officers, Joe Rojas, about the corruption and abuse and how that impacts the lives of employees and incarcerated people.</p>