Oregon
Can Colette Peters Fix the Bureau of Prisons?
When the embattled head of the federal Bureau of Prisons stepped down earlier this 12 months, many hoped his alternative can be somebody in a position to overhaul the scandal-plagued federal system.
The ultimate choose — Oregon jail director Colette Peters — appeared to suit the invoice. Throughout her 10 years on the helm of the state corrections division, Peters burnished a popularity as a reformer, vowing to scale back using solitary confinement and of the possibly stigmatizing phrase “inmate.” Like her counterparts in California and North Dakota, she made headlines by visiting Norway within the hope of bringing a gentler mannequin of incarceration again to the USA.
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