Background In April 2009, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) awarded a contract to Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which is now known as CoreCivic, Inc., to house up to 2,567 low-security, non-U.S. citizen adult male inmates in the Adams County Correctional Center (Adams County).1 The BOP exercised the contract’s second of three 2-year option periods in 2015, extending it through July 2017 and increasing its value to about $468 million. As of June 2016, it was the third largest Department of Justice (Department or DOJ) contract in terms of dollars obligated since fiscal year (FY) 2009. The DOJ Office…
Author: John Greenewald
Background The U.S. Postal Service’s security program is. designed to reduce the incidence of crime against employees, the mail, and other assets, as well as maintain the integrity of the Postal Service .. The Postal Service faces a variety of security challenges and threats that it must take seriously. Our objective was to determine whether the Capital District had an effective anonymous mail program in place to prevent potentially dangerous mail from entering the. mailstream and a workplace violence program to mitigate violence. We developed an enhanced security risk model to identify high-risk districts that warrant further review. We analyzed…
Background Melanie Ann Pustay became the Director of the Office of Information Policy of the United States Department of Justice in 2007. The Office of Information Policy is responsible for developing guidance for Executive Branch agencies on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), for ensuring that the President’s FOIA Memorandum and the Attorney General’s FOIA Guidelines are fully implemented across the government, and for overseeing agency compliance with the law. Before becoming Director, Ms. Pustay served for eight years as Deputy Director of OIP, where she was responsible for the Department’s responses to access requests made to the Department’s Senior…
Background NNSA receives its authority for the responsibility for all weapon and weapon-related functions from 50 USC 2402, Chapter 41. DOE/NNSA and DoD cooperate in the development, production, and maintenance of nuclear weapons. Figure 1.1-1 illustrates DOE/NNSA/DoD organizational interrelationships. The basic document that establishes the interrelationships between the two agencies is “An Agreement Between the AEC and the DoD for the Development, Production, and Standardization of Atomic Weapons,” dated March 21, 1953. This is commonly referred to as the “1953 Agreement.” It was updated on September 5, 1984, by the “Supplement to the 1953 Agreement for the Development, Production, and…
Abstract Over the past 24 months, the Office of Inspector General (OJG) has issued multiple reports assessing U.S. Government efforts to train, equip, and advise the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).1 This is the fifth in a series of periodic reports that address ISAF development of the ANP/Mol and the Afghan National Army (ANA)/Ministry of Defense (MoD). The metrics reports track ANSF progress toward assuming an independent and sustainable role in security operations. The OTG collects infmmation ft·om recurring briefings, reports, and other data collected and disseminated by ISAF and its subordinate commands-ISAF Joint Command (IJC), and NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan…