Is Biden overlooking Bureau of Prisons as reform target? COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL BALSAMO , Associated Press July 29, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this July 6, 2020, file photo a sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. While most criminal justice overhauls require action from local officials or legislation, reforming the federal prison system is something President Joe Biden and his Justice Department control.Mark Lennihan/AP WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden took quick action after his inauguration to start shifting federal inmates out of privately run prisons, where complaints of abuses abound.