People incarcerated in federal prisons have been restrained for weeks at a time, sometimes for attempting to harm themselves, according to investigations conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG.) Despite pervasive problems with the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) use of restraints, the OIG’s investigation, published on July 29, revealed that “the BOP does…
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