A federal judge has appointed a lead monitor with three decades of experience in corrections to oversee a consent decree meant to address dangerous and unhealthy jail conditions in Georgia's most populous county.
At a federal prison in rural Virginia, more than 50 prisoners say they've been abused. But when they try to file a complaint — they're stopped, often by the same guards they say are abusing them.
Investigators said warden Andrew Ciolli should have stopped abuse of prisoners. He faced disciplinary action. Now he's the director of a federal center that teaches others how to run prisons.
The watchdog's reporting comes in the wake of several high-profile deaths in federal lockups in recent years, most notably the murder James "Whitey" Bulger and the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein.
The inspector general's office found inmates served moldy bread, containers of food covered by what appear to be rodent droppings and insects in bags of cereal.
Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' sentence hasn't changed, but like all prisoners who follow the rules, she can qualify for early release under the federal government's "good time" guidelines.
