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@RepMattGaetz My office has received disturbing allegations of political retaliation by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons against @JohnStrandUSA and @OwenShroyer1776 I’m looking forward to taking up Director Peters on her offer for on-site visits to investigate how J6 defendants are being treated.

February 10, 2009 Part Two: Islam in American Prisons By Kathy Shaidle RightSideNews Copyright © 2009 "One in 10 inmates behind bars turns to Islam." It was small story in a local newspaper called the Daily Herald out of Everett, Washington, but it spread quickly around the internet, thanks to that startling claim. The paper's February 2009 investigation declared that so-called "prison Islam" was the fastest-growing religious group in U.S. correctional facilities. Some of those worshippers claim affiliation with the Nation of Islam (NOR), a black separatist movement that was launched and promoted by two convicts, Elijah Mohammed and his...

BAGHDAD — Nearly (100) Iraqi Correctional Officers (ICO) graduated from the Iraqi Correctional Officer Training Academy at a ceremony held here Nov. 8 at Camp Cropper. The graduates first attended a rigorous eight-week basic training program held near Amman, Jordan, before attending a four-week Advanced Individual Training course at Camp Cropper. The ICO were then partnered with Coalition forces for on-the-job training and mentorship. For some of the ICO, their next step will be the attendance of a two-week Non-Commissioned Officers Course, also held at Camp Cropper. This successful ICO/Coalition force relationship is moving the ICO program toward the transfer...

A guard started a gunfight inside a federal prison Wednesday as FBI agents tried to arrest him and five others accused of trading alcohol and pot for sex with female inmates, officials said. When the shooting was over, two people were dead and another was wounded. The gunman and a Justice Department investigator were killed in the exchange of gunfire, and a prison employee helping with the arrest was hospitalized, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. The victims' names and the condition of the survivor were...

CHICAGO - An off-duty correctional officer shot and killed a friend and co-worker early Saturday whom he mistakenly believed was trying to carjack a vehicle being driven by his wife, police said. Arlin McClendon, 36, of Calumet City, was killed while trying to pull a joke on a longtime friend in an area where two dozen carjackings have occurred in less than a year, authorities said. "It is a tragic accident, a case of mistaken identity," said Calumet City Police Sgt. Larry Smith. "The victim and the shooter were lifelong friends. They worked together." McClendon was driving in the suburb...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (SMW) - As recently as a year ago, California correctional officers set up a picket line to shut down a college program for inmates at Ironwood State Prison. Why should convicts get a free crack at college, the union argued, when the officers' kids have to pay for it? So when the California Correctional Peace Officers Association this year won a say at the bargaining table in evaluating whether a college program at San Quentin should be expanded, inmates rights activists and the union's legislative critics blew a fuse. They suggested that any role the CCPOA plays in...

Even as war rages in Iraq, federal agents have begun to unlock the secrets of an unlicensed, unregistered Islamic charity in upstate New York that allegedly pumped millions of dollars into Baghdad. Flouting U.S. economic sanctions, the group shipped cash out of Syracuse, laundered it in banks in Jordan and then illegally funneled it into Iraq, according to an unsealed federal indictment. Operating under the name Help the Needy, the organization described itself as a tax-exempt nonprofit that provided food and humanitarian assistance to the "starving children and suffering Muslims of Iraq." But it lacked charitable status, misrepresented itself in...