Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) has called the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s failure to count nearly 1,000 prison deaths a “shocking gap.”
The report (pdf) on a 10-month bi-partisan investigation was revealed on Sept. 20 at a Senate hearing. The investigation focused on whether the DOJ has complied with the Death in Custody Reporting Act (DCRA) of 2013.
“What we’ve found are shocking gaps in federal oversight,” Ossoff, who led the probe, said in an interview with Fox News Digital last week.
“For example, in 2021 alone, the Department of Justice failed to count nearly 1,000 deaths in jails and prisons nationwide.”
According to the Georgia lawmaker, the probe revealed that even when deaths were counted, reports on “more than a third of them … failed to document the circumstances of death.”…