BOP Hires Sentencing Reform Advocate
In a strange-but-true story—like a fox asking a hen to help raid the coop—the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced on October 20, 2023, that its Office of Legislative Affairs has a new attorney advisor: Molly Gill, a long-time official at sentencing reform nonprofit Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM).
Gill had 16 years at the organization, the last six as Vice-President of Policy. In her new role at BOP, she will work with members of Congress “to help their constituents with loved ones in prison,” she said. She was succeeded at FAMM by Daniel Landsman, a six-year veteran who had served under her as Deputy Director of Policy since 2021.
Founded in 1991, FAMM works to repeal “extreme mandatory sentencing laws.” Noting that all but 6% of incarcerated people will one day return to their communities, the organization also promotes “rehabilitation and dignity for all people in prison.”
In a letter she penned from FAMM to the federal Department of Justice in September 2023, Gill called for an investigation into Trousdale-Turner Correctional Center (TTCC), Tennessee’s largest state prison, which is privately operated by CoreCivic. Comparing conditions there to those at Alabama prisons, which DOJ declared unconstitutional in 2019, Gill noted that prisoners “often go hungry, have cell doors with broken locks, live in unsanitary conditions, and are denied essential medicine,” while “gangs run various pods” and “contraband drugs are rampant.”
Sources: FAMM, Nashville Tennesseean
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