{"id":1193604,"date":"2022-01-06T10:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1193604"},"modified":"2022-01-06T10:35:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T15:35:31","slug":"federal-bureau-of-prisons-director-michael-carvajal-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-bureau-of-prisons-director-michael-carvajal-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Bureau Of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal To Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-bureau-of-prisons-director-michael-carvajal-to-resign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1193604&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Michael Carvajal will step down from his position after nearly two years on the job, the BOP announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Appointed by Attorney General William Barr, Carvajal faced scrutiny from the Biden administration and congressional Democrats, many of whom urged Attorney General Merrick Garland to fire him. Carvajal will stay in his position until Garland names his successor, the BOP said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bop.gov\/resources\/news\/20220105_director_to_retire.jsp\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael\u2019s career has been defined by his commitment to the bureau, to its mission, and to the people we all serve. I am extremely appreciative of Michael\u2019s decades of public service, most recently at the helm of one of the most complex missions in the federal government,\u201d Garland said.<\/p>\n<p>Carvajal first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bop.gov\/about\/agency\/bio_dir.jsp\">joined<\/a> the BOP in 1992, following a career in the Army.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">U.S. prisons chief to retire amid criticism over COVID-19 response <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3lPsbxdB37\">https:\/\/t.co\/3lPsbxdB37<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wXPluw7Zqe\">pic.twitter.com\/wXPluw7Zqe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReutersPolitics\/status\/1479037567513280513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/press\/dem\/releases\/durbin-calls-on-ag-garland-to-dismiss-bop-director-carvajal\">urged<\/a> Garland to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryDems\/status\/1463280649721331714\">fire<\/a> Carvajal, citing the Bureau of Prisons\u2019 handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, alleged serial criminal conduct by BOP employees, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/24\/epstein-prison-records-senate-democrats-fire-michael-carvajal-bureau-of-prisons\/\">refusal<\/a> to cooperate with congressional investigations into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Prisons at the state and federal levels have become <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/01\/us-prison-understaffed-covid\/\">short-staffed<\/a>, and the Biden administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/22\/department-justice-prisoners-release-cares-act-wont-be-returned\/\">ordered<\/a> the permanent release of thousands of prisoners. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/17\/republicans-introduce-legislation-prevent-taxpayer-funded-checks-going-prisoners-bryan-steil\/\"><strong>(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Will Introduce Legislation To Prevent Taxpayer-Funded Checks From Going To Prisoners)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senate Judiciary Committee chairman and Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin celebrated Carvajal\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years, the Bureau of Prisons has been plagued by corruption, chronic understaffing, and mismanagement. In the nearly two years since Director Carvajal was handpicked by then-Attorney General Bill Barr, he has failed to address the mounting crises in our nation\u2019s federal prison system, including failing to fully implement the landmark First Step Act. His resignation is an opportunity for new, reform-minded leadership at the Bureau of Prisons,\u201d he said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/press\/dem\/releases\/durbin-statement-on-resignation-of-director-carvajal-from-federal-bureau-of-prisons\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before his appointment to head the Bureau, Carvajal was northeast regional director. He was previously the warden of Federal Correctional Institute-Texarkana in Texas, and the complex warden of Federal Correctional Center-Pollock, in Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Michael Carvajal will step down from his position after nearly two years on the job, the BOP announced Wednesday.Appointed by Attorney General William Barr, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}