Federal inmates attacking prison guards in nationwide trend as lawmakers propose their solution

FIRST ON FOX: Lawmakers connected Capitol Hill person introduced caller authorities to code a shocking complaint of inmate enactment crime against national corrections officers 

The Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act is simply a effect to a Justice Department Inspector General study that recovered 40% of Federal Bureau of Prisons staffers said they had been sexually attacked by an inmate.

"It is unacceptable that astir fractional of Bureau of Prisons unit acquisition intersexual harassment oregon battle by inmates. The Bureau of Prisons indispensable bash much to guarantee the information of corrections officers and to clasp perpetrators accountable," said Rep. Laurel Lee, R-Fla., who co-sponsored a caller measure to combat it. "The Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act  will supply oversight to the national situation strategy and combat these abuses." 

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A information defender checks vehicles entering the Butner Federal Correctional Complex connected Nov. 20, 2015 successful Butner, North Carolina.  (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

The measure was introduced successful the House by Reps. Lee, and Hank Johnson, D-Ga. A Senate mentation was sponsored by Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., and introduced previously.

Johnson said the incidents person climbed to "unacceptable levels," particularly against pistillate officers. 

The measure gives the Justice Department's Inspector General a twelvemonth to behaviour a statistical reappraisal of intersexual battle and harassment cases inflicted connected situation guards by inmates successful national prisons, an investigation of the punishments doled out, and past different 180 days to crook implicit a study to the judiciary committees connected each the House and Senate.

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Secret Service and situation guards basal connected the extortion arsenic then-President Barack Obama tours a compartment artifact astatine the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution successful El Reno, Oklahoma, July 16, 2015. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

After that, the lawyer wide volition beryllium required to make caller rules to forestall and trim specified cases and standardize punishments for inmates who onslaught guards. 

"Last year, astir fractional of surveyed Bureau of Prisons unit stated they had been sexually harassed oregon assaulted by an inmate," Sen. Blackburn said. "This statistic is appalling and unacceptable. No national worker oregon instrumentality enforcement serviceman should person to fearfulness for their information erstwhile they amusement up to work, and the  Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act  would beryllium an important measurement guardant successful ending intersexual maltreatment of situation unit who are simply trying to bash their jobs." 

The connection has enactment from the Fraternal Order of Police.

"The staggering fig of documented intersexual battle incidents highlights the unsafe situation successful which our officers and different unit operate," said FOP President Patrick Yoes said.

The United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility successful unincorporated Fremont County, Colorado. Known arsenic The Alcatraz of the Rockies, the supermax situation is location to immoderate of the astir notorious inmates successful the US national situation system. (iStock)

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The Bureau of Prisons has been nether occurrence for a fig of issues successful caller years. A plague of inmate suicides, including that of enactment trafficking financier Jeffrey Epstein, led to a abstracted IG probe and the closure of the Manhattan installation wherever helium was being held.

Federal agents swarmed different installation adjacent past month, successful Brooklyn, wherever Sean "Diddy" Combs is being held awaiting proceedings connected enactment trafficking charges of his own.

The erstwhile manager of the Bureau of Prisons, Michael D. Carvajal, resigned successful 2022 amid reports of pervasive transgression and corruption successful the bureau.

He near months aft The Associated Press reported that the Bureau of Prisons "is a hotbed of abuse, graft and corruption, and has turned a unsighted oculus to employees accused of misconduct."

More than 100 BOP workers person been arrested, convicted, oregon sentenced for crimes since 2019, with 1 warden being charged with intersexual maltreatment of an inmate. 

Fox News' Chris Pandolfo and The Associated Press contributed to this report.