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The work of your Committee is vital, and academic researchers like myself stand ready to assist and to support as needed.

The fact that we do not get the information that we have tasked you with producing... until 6 or 8 years after a deadline, that has cost human lives.

Thank you, Ms. Henneberg. I appreciate your perspective on that State-local issue.

The Federal Government has unique authority to be able to collect this information from the jails in ways that members of the community cannot.

It would be much better if the Federal Government collected this level of information.

The crisis in America's prisons, jails, and detention centers is ongoing and unconscionable.

Do you think that is information that should be made public and transparent?

There is no excuse here that the data is not good enough.

It would bring a new level of accountability to our nation's correctional institutions.

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, in many cases preventably.

We are now almost 6 years past the deadline.

Thank you, Ranking Member Johnson.

I am looking for a precise answer to a very particular question.

You found nearly 1,000 deaths last year alone uncounted by DOJ, and you believe it is likely a significant undercount.

It would bring additional transparency.

If legislation is what is required, let us legislate.

DCRA required the Department of Justice to issue that report to Congress.

Let us crystallize those findings, and I am so grateful to you and your staff for undertaking that analysis at our request.