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Or budgeting or personnel management or authorities that bop has? >> yes, senator, i met with comptroller general about this, the various of his reports and this one in particular and i agree this is a serious problem with the bureau of prisons, deputy attorney general has been working on this problem for quite sometime now, she has repeat meetings with the bureau of prisons to go over the issue with report to staffing and assessment and be happy to have somebody on our staff meet with your staff. >> thank you, attorney general, the inspector general has determined that bop lacks clear and con...

Prioritizing the implementation of requirements imposed upon the bop? >> yes and yes. >> thank you, attorney general. like to discuss with you staffing issues at the bureau of prisons. earlier this year the gao, nonpartisan independent watchdog, concluded bop lacks reliable method for assessing scope of staffing issues or impact on incarcerated population and staff of staffing issues at bop facilities, do you agree the inability to reliably measure this problem impedes bop's ability to address gaps, shortages of medical staff, shortages of personnel who will implement first step act and antire...

Compassionate release and prisons aren't made for social distancing. my question is will you monitor what is going on with compassionate release in terms of people returning or the utilization compassionate release from the bop under the issue of covid? >> yes, the answer is yes. obviously the pandemic was something the bureau of prisons or institutions were not prepared for. it created a lot of difficulties and led to compassionate release and leaving people in home confinement. we are certainly reviewing carefully how the bureau is responding now to this dangerous circumstance of covid-19. >...

Milwaukee, wisconsin. you have parents that are silenced. >> the time has expired mr. jeffries. >> thank you mr. chairman and general garland for your leadership, service to the country and your presence here today. earlier today the house bat passed on a bipartisan basis by a vote of 414211 the effective counsel and digital air act which would limit the ability to private communications between detainees and at the custody their attorneys. included in a bipartisan way, and that needs to be addressed, with seeking technical assistant from the department of justice and the b.o.p., i sent a lett...

Since the facts were gross in terms of the abuse of those children? i think you are investigating georgia as well. >> we are investigating texas and that was announced and i believe the governor welcomed that investigation and it's being done by a combination of the civil rights division and all four u.s. attorneys offices in texas. >> with respect to compassionate release which came about through the cares act we found 39% of american federal prisoners contracted covid-19, 200700 persons died. there is a potential of the compassionate release being eliminated in those out but i found it is no...