Federal Report Criticizes Harsh Treatment Of Lewisburg Prisoners
A Justice Department review says the federal prison violates its own rules that men with serious mental illnesses should be removed from its Special Management Unit.
A new federal report harshly criticizes the way the Bureau of Prisons treats inmates with mental illness, singling out treatment at the prison at Lewisburg, Pa.
The report by the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General says BOP violates its own policies by keeping prisoners with mental illness in solitary confinement for too long and with too little treatment.
At Lewisburg, the report finds many last year by NPR and, , a nonprofit news organization focused on criminal justice.
