The IG’s “Review of Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Management of Its Female Inmate Population” was conducted over the course of a year and was based on interviews with more than 200 inmates ...

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner was held in restraints so tight that he had to have a limb amputated.

Its leadership must manage a massive $8 billion-plus budget, more than 143,000 federal inmates across 122 prisons, and a workforce of more than 35,000 as the Justice Department’s largest employer.