Do you believe that is the kind of information that should be made public, transparently?
DCRA required the Department of Justice to issue that report to Congress.
It would bring additional transparency.
The work of your Committee is vital, and academic researchers like myself stand ready to assist and to support as needed.
Thank you, Ms. Henneberg. I appreciate your perspective on that State-local issue.
I think that the Subcommittee should help, in so far as we can, to honor and to remember Jonathan and Matthew.
It would bolster public confidence and trust in our judicial system.
There is no excuse here that the data is not good enough.
The crisis in America's prisons, jails, and detention centers is ongoing and unconscionable.
It would bring a new level of accountability to our nation's correctional institutions.
The Federal Government has unique authority to be able to collect this information from the jails in ways that members of the community cann...
This is about the Americans who are locked up, many of them pretrial detainees who have been convicted of no crime, who are dying every year...
I work on this committee every day to make sure that I am representing the people who sent me here to serve, those people in Georgia's Fifth...
If legislation is what is required, let us legislate.
Unfortunately, Atlanta leads the nation in the racial wealth gap, so we all have work to do and an obligation to make sure we are addressing...
Is it fair to say, Professor, that, generally speaking, for each death there is more suffering, more illness perhaps poorly treated, and mor...
We are now almost 6 years past the deadline.
You found nearly 1,000 deaths last year alone uncounted by DOJ, and you believe it is likely a significant undercount.