The Bureau of Prisons has lowballed its budget requests to Congress, which has weakened its ability to address aging and deteriorating infrastructure, a government watchdog said Wednesday.
And the report from the Justice Department’s inspector general pointed to $1 billion Congress has set aside for new prison construction that has gone unspent — including a Kentucky project the government has made “repeated, unsuccessful requests to cancel.”
The DOJ watchdog featured images of crumbling and worn-out infrastructure in the nation’s federal prison system in the report, including images from the now-shuttered institution in lower Manhattan where sex offender Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.
