'What Is A Justice-Involved Individual?': Tom Cotton Grills Top Prison Official About Semantics
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- Опубликовано: 21 июн 2024
- At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) grilled Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters.
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Anyone in the private sector would be fired for this incompetence
"I don't know or, I don't have that answer" is only acceptable when you create NOTHING, use other people's money to support your endeavors...And have ZERO accountability to anyone.
Anybody who is not a Democrat would be imprisoned for their corruption.
This is not incompetence this is corruption at the highest levels in Government. Starting in the White House. Corruption never rolls up, always down. The only thing that rolls up are the envelops $.
@@longshot7601 Anyone who votes for DemocRATs should be imprisoned for a mental evaluation.
Not if they're in a union.
If my boss asked me that amount of questions about my job and I told him I don’t know over and over I would need to find another job. Its time we held these people accountable.
You just hit the nail on the head, accountability. The reason these types gravitate towards government employment is because there is no accountability. Most have no useful skills or talents, so they need a job where that doesn't matter. Allegiance to the party is all that is required.
I thought Cotton was being too lenient in accepting her delay, delay, delay answers.
I have a friend who had eiither quit or been fired from every single job he had
( and we're talking 2-3 jobs a year). When he hit his mid-forties, he realized is future was looking pretty bleak. So what did he do? He went to work in a civil service job precisely because he knew civil servants seldom gets fired. He's been shuffled from one team to another and written up by H/R, but just completed his 18th year and getting ready to retire.....
@@larryharbison2466 I know people like that too and it pisses me off. People working for our government should be held to a higher standard than a public sector job but they never will be because there isn’t any incentive to be efficient.
It is too much , you have to know few details at least , if not , they would have never hired them or us , they would have hired bette4 employees !🇨🇦
She don't even know what a criminal is it's disgraceful.
That should be an easy question to answer. Ask her the definition of a woman. That should really throw her off.
I worked as a Correctional Peace Officer, (8 week Academy and POST certification ), for 25 years and now retired. I can tell you that the job is not enjoyable at all with times of stress completely off the charts. Feds don’t pay nearly enough for the amount of hostile work environments that are inherently involved in that thankless and unrecognized career field. A big shoutout to my brothers and sisters who walk the line and stand on the walls to protect us from those in our society who would do us harm….I love you all for the sacrifices you make to keep us safe….God bless and may you have an uneventful and safe watch….
It takes a RARE breed, to take on that work...GOD BLESS YOU!
We hold you high!!!!!
Everybody believes that they are underpaid and unappreciated in their career, that their job is vitally important to society, and that it is especially and uniquely stressful. Every. Single. Worker. So join the club, sister.
@@blindlemon9clearly you haven’t been inside a prison where defending yourself and others from assault, attempted murder or having feces thrown in your face can happen without warrant happens daily. Then you would understand the life of a CO
She needs to be relieved of her duties. Appears she’s not doing a damn thing. She certainly doesn’t know what’s going on.
Not true, she's flies around pretending she's a big shot...So, there's that!
Just establish a simple policy that no money from next year's budget will be released until all the answers they've promised to Congress have been received. No answers, no paychecks, no electricity, no heat.
No one in the Federal gov't ever loses their job. At worst, they are reassigned. Why do you think Homeland Security is such a joke. Departments use these 'new' departments as a way to reassign (get rid of) their crappy employees.
How about we keep Colette in jail until we get all the answers in writing and they make sense.
Then WE'LL get back to her.
Somehow I Believe that May just light a Fire under Her Ass!
With a few sex offenders in a locked room
How about just stop paying her.
LMAO Yes! 😀🤣
Is anybody in this administration held accountable for the actions they do in office. It’s a disgrace what they get away with.
No
I had 10 kids working for me and Amore 30 years ago. They knew what our product costs were for product and beverage. They knew the supply chains for the products and beverage. This is not disgraceful, this is "criminal".
Question is, who is she covering for?
That's disgraceful classifying victims and criminals as the same classification.
This blurs the lines between the two groups of people and so the number in any reportt is skewed
Orwell would be proud
No surprise as these ilk will gladly violate the 2nd Amendment for law abiding citizens when a criminal uses a gun.
a turd is still a turd even if you call it used food
'Its a phrase i use quite often'
And....
I'll get back to you with that one.
She isn't even nervous about saying how terrible she is doing her job. She shouldn't have that job.
She has checked at least 2 check boxes, a woman and a commie democrat.
Affirmative action hire
no dems care
YES!! She's getting her a** handed to her and she either doesn't see it or doesn't care. I think she just doesn't care bc she knows nothing can happen to her.
Why should she care? Nothing is going to happen to her.
I don't understand how she can sit there and tell him that she isn't going to do her job. That's basically what she is doing.
Any person in charge of an institution that cannot answer these basic questions NEEDS to be removed from that charge. Unbelievable 😬
Another example of a Democrat not knowing their job.
But at least they're diverse!
DEI = planned incompetence
@@gregorygrimm5540I was just going say that exact thing!
lmao...Republican need to start working with democrats on the other side on all issues that concern Americans.
Exactly! She needs to be FIRED!
@@mariaelenagalassi8692 That will never happen because the left has branded the right as racist nazis. How can they now work together with a bunch of racist nazis without upsetting their base? They basically painted themselves into a corner with their extreme rhetoric.
Senator, I'm an appointed Democrat buffoon, no one ever taught me the duties of this position that allows me to get paid a lot of money without accountability
And she knows they can't do anything to her other than apply pressure.
She did the Harris routine to get were she is at
That’s for Sure!
How in the world did she ever get to be a Prisons Director???
Criminals and victims all get the same distinction from these people, which explains a lot come to think of it.
It's exceptionally frustrating that, not just in this hearing, but in every one I see, those in charge in the executive branch seem to do very little, if anything to have ready factual answers about their areas of responsibility. This lack of preparation would get most people fired, on the spot, for not taking their jobs seriously. But if they don't have the numbers, sound bites of astounding irresponsibility can't be made.
"Justice involved individuals"! There is the problem - blurring the lines between criminal and victim.
You can be accused, charged, and acquitted and be neither a criminal or a victim of a crime. Justice involved individual is a bs term but it's supposed to just mean "people who have been involved with the justice system" and doesn't just mean criminals or victims.
Hunter Biden is a Justice involved individual, as will his entire family to become
@@Kevin2432 Deliberately obfuscating the clear line between criminal activity and victims of criminal activities is what Marxist democrats must do.
@@Kevin2432 That's bullshit. It's always been true that the accused may be acquitted. No reason to start treating victims like criminals.
"justice involved individual" is just a built in "woke" evasion process so that no one will know what she's talking about. A victim and a criminal are two distinct opposites in a case. This is MADNESS.
They do that so they can ask for more money
Actually the term "justice involved individual" was originally invented because "criminal " hurts woke people's empathetic feelings for the poor criminals, it's not gentle and inclusive, they truly have been trained to be overly sensitive.
Yep more embellishments
Foul demon language
PERP is the Word.
It' is appalling how incompetent these people are and how they can continue to either not know the answers, or refuse to actually answer with a straight answer. What hope is there for anything to work in these sectors when those in charge are completely incompetent?!
I swear it should be a felony, punishable my life in prison for the way, these dishonest public officials avoid the questions. It’s absolutely disgustingly insulting to us that they carry on like this.
Are there any federal officials that aren't incompetent? Just one?
nope
They are very diverse. Competence is not a needed attribute.
Yea the guy asking the guestions😮
@@derekvancampenhout5530 😳🤔😎☝
@@templardisciple3387 He was saying Cotton ISN'T incompetent.
“Justice-involved individuals” is absurd and an insult to victims. Victims would not be involved with the justice system if not for the criminals!
Exactly my thought. By giving criminals and victims a common label, she is lumping them all together. It’s disgusting.
Typical leftist authoritarian action of equating the criminal with his or her victims.
How about "Highly-inept administration "
Leftism is in direct conflict with common sense and coherency.
They aren't victims, they're collateral damage
Can anyone of us imagine having a job where our funders, those who give us the funding to operate our operations, asking a direct question (in writing) and months later saying you don't have an answer. Crazy.
Everyplace I've ever worked fires people for incompetency when that can't provide basic answers for their area of responsibility. How much of our hard-earned tax dollars are we paying this woman?
Bro, you'll pay her whatever she wants. The deep state owns you and your representatives. Tom Cotton is a democrat puppet
She is obviously lying.. Doesn't take a genius to see that.. Make her a justice-involved individual.
No wonder we also have "Undocumented aliens" instead of "Criminal Trespassing Illegal invaders". The wordsmiths for democrats obfuscate everything. Oh and lets not forget the big one "Climate Change"! Totally meaningless as it does not describe CHANGE FROM WHAT TO WHAT or what is the IDEAL climate, or when the Climate has not CHANGED.
Sure, as long as she is on the criminal side of the ledger and not the victim side.
YES! YES! YES!
you never got back to him before how are you going to get answers 1 yr 2 yrs
Imagine you are working for a company and someone from senior leadership asks for written answers to their questions but you tell them that you do not know when you will be able to provide them with this information. What would happen?
‘YOUR FIRED “!!!
@@mikefrancis8223sorry dude, gotta do it. You're*
Trump 2024
You would be out on your bummer, wondering what the hades happened.
I was Director of Engineering for a company with 70 facilities world wide, and if I ever went into a meeting this unprepared, I would have walked out unemployed and it would have been totally justified.
Corruption both breeds and hides behind incompetence. Any federal employee that refuses to answer questions to oversight should be summarily dismissed without severance and forfeit benefits accrued.
Half of the Senate would be missing by now If your statement was held in high regard and in accordance to the Constitution.
Please organize her termination papers! 🇺🇸
This is the perfect example of what type of individuals run our country, work 1-2 hours a day, accomplish the bare minimum and make a 6 figure salary.
truth
Don't forget about the fat pension
And the answers will delivered by the mafia dealers 🎉
@@TonicJujunah bro, the mafia wouldn’t go for this bs lmao tbh this country was waaaayyyy better when the mob was running things. Ever since they started the Rico cases, this country has been in steep decline. That may be coincidence, but it’s a damn convenient one
Sign me up. How do I get a job like that?
She has no answers to anything and she’s the boss wow
Why is it that whenever I've had to do anything gov't related, I HAVE to submit the info. they require by an exact date, yet these clowns can come in and say "Idk" and "I don't have that with me" on repeat with no consequences whatsoever?
If a manager in any company in the country demonstrated this level of incompetence in front of the board of directors, they would be filing for unemployment as soon as they left the meeting.
Justice Involved Person is literally double speak. Her response to the question "why don't we just call them criminals and victims" is as telling as it gets.
This is what the "woke" do; they sit around coming up with word games to obfuscate the problem; to make simple things sound complicated; and to avoid answering questions they don't want to answer. Congress needs the ability to punish the uncooperative. Simple way would to break their funding out in a separate bill that sits in a committee somewhere until the answers are provided.
Literal double speak. Chilling.
Pretty good
There is one major thing lacking from the US Government regarding its employees.....ACCOUNTABILITY
Oh, there is accountability. For the ones they want it to be with! TRUMP 2024!
This is because we have forgotten who was supposed to hold the government accountable. Hint: It's not the government.
The Second Amendment is supposed to be your license to assassinate treasonous members of government.
Its amazing how much better the answers were when Trump was in charge
It's shocking she doesn't know these key figures.
Once a CRIMINAL breaks the law everyone is a justice involved individual. There are criminal and victims. I can't believe she has the audacity to put them in the same group.🤬
The ignorance of this woman with regard to her own organization is unbelievable. She has still not answered the questions from a year ago, and can only say this year “we’ll get back to you,” which of course she will not, any more than she has since last year. She is grossly incompetent.
This no answer situation has gone on forever. Start handing out heavy fines plus firing them.
Obviously only qualified by gender … not abilities nor diligence ….
She’s just in line with the rest of this incompetent administration!!!
And arrogant and deviant. Protected class.
@@chrisbraid2907 Qualified by ideology.
If any one of us were at the top of our organization and were asked questions regarding our core operations and could not give a single answer, clearly we would be fired. Why Colette Peters still has a job is beyond me.
If I had performed like this during my dissertation defense, I would not be a PhD in pure mathematics. Thankfully, I am smarter than her...
She should be a justice involved individual and behind bars.
why hasn't she been dismissed
ALSO…I WISH THESE PATHETIC LEADERS HAD TO PAY A $5000 PAYCUT EVERY TIME THEY SAY "ILL HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU"
These high ranking public officials like the money and the prestige but not the accountability. Their lack of knowledge about what is going on in their departments is astounding.
this is absolutely DISGUSTING
They know what is going on in their departments because they are the ones leading the direction. They HAVE to hide the real information. If they were to actually answer the questions under oath then the public would know how corrupt they are.
They're not ignorant, they don't want to answer the question as they would get under pressure.
Oh, they know. They are just dirty to the core.
INDEED!!!
What a great embarrassment as expected for a fed agency.
If my boss asked me this many questions and my reply was "I dont know".. I would be on a straight path towards termination.
"It's a complicated process..." meaning, we have to figure out how to make it look like it's something legitimate when it clearly isn't. And the longer it takes, the more people with common sense and basic intelligence know that it's clearly illegitimate.
Circumlocution...Dickens called it.
Gosh. I wish when I went to court I could tell the judge that I’ll “work on getting you the answers when I have them..” fast forward a year and I’ll again state that I’m still working on those answers… nobody would ever answer to any crimes, tickets would never be paid 🎉
Hold the accountable to a date and if not they get fined.
She basically said that they need time to go back and forth and make sure they tell the same lies.
That is astounding...she was asked 25 questions directly related to the position she holds and didn't answer a single one.😮
She’s LIEING, you can read the body language as she shakes her head up and down trying to enforce her answers. She is avoiding questions. She tiptoes and carefully thinks before she answers. Every time she’s asked a question she’s uncomfortable with, she answers she’ll have to get back to you.
I new she was lying before he asked her any question!
You all are. Entertained? 🤑
She'll have to get back to him but refuses to give a date. Questions were sent to her over a year ago!
NO GOVERMENT EMPLOYEE “WORKS HARD” IM SICK OF HEARING THAT…IVE BEEN THERE
welcome to America, it's not new
They work hard. They work hard to torture, and hide it 🤓
This would be way more amusing if the Senate could fire these people, it would mean they actually answer questions.
PLEASE JUST FIRE THEM AND THEN PUT THEM IN JAIL
This administrator is a disgrace. She needs to go to jail.
Nothing that dreastic but; she should be fired and no pension, that's for sure!
Everyone of these so called bosses don't know anything. They would be fired immediately in the private world
she always has to plan lies ....ahead of the questionings!!!
every word from that woman answering question is insanity
Why do state senators have more data about federal agencies than the head of said agencies do? Why are people there to answer questions and then answer zero questions? It is beyond frustrating, and unacceptable. There need to be some sweeping changes in our government. And I’m afraid the only way for that to be accomplished will be by war or coup. How sad for America. How sad for the futures of our children.
Senators have the numbers because they did the research knowing the agency heads will refuse to give a correct answer IF they answer at all.
Well this is the administrative State they believe they are untouchable. They know they are contriving the lines and screwing the American public because the American public are such sheeple. Prisons for hire
Ask: Is part of your job to answer the questions posed by this committee? Yes = Then why are you failing in your job. No = Then go away and send in your superior who has that responsibility.
What future? That both parties are going to kiss and make up?
If somebody could kick McCarthy in the ass again, maybe he could move to break appropriations into many smaller bills as the freedom caucus asked him to do. Then when you get witnesses like this who are uncooperative, the House could just delay her money until she is cooperative.
First of all, thank you Senator Cotton for your clear and direct questions. Even better, you knowing the answers to the questions you asked. Having read the responses of other people to this hearing, I think I agree with them. How is it possible for the Director of Prisons to be so unprepared for this hearing? Senators are supposed to ask questions and have a dialogue with the witness to make good, sound decisions, recommendations, or what else to maximum benefit or our tax dollars. I have to agree with others in this post, government needs to change, with accountability, clarity, responsible and responsive of all directors or leaders of any bureau or department. God bless America.
We need jail cells with phones in the basement of the Capitol, where witnesses who don't have the answers can sit in a cell, on the phone to their organization, until they do have answers.
Can I phone a friend?
These people have communication officers to guide them through the procedures that they are going to face so this lack of forthcoming is ludicrous
It seems logical that overall, it would be easier to find candidates for the support staff and more difficult to find those interested in becoming correctional officers just due to the difficult nature of the job. I would think that there would be more rigid standards for them as well over those who perform administrative and support functions. She should have had answers and been more forthcoming IMHO.
My name? Senator, I don't have that information with me!
If the org as a whole is at 88% of staffing, but corrections is at 60%, that suggests that there may be areas of the department that are staffed above 100% of funded. That's both absurd and, I would think, unlawful.
Have any top department officials EVER had the information requested without saying "I'll get back with you".
How did they manage to be hired for such critical positions
This administration purposefully hires incompetent people to make their own sorry asses look not so bad. Just look at all the 3 letter agencies/ departments... a sad bunch to be sure.
It's because of who they know or their monetary contributions.
In other words; if you worked for me YOU'RE FIRED
Why are all of these people Federal Bureau people on the fringe of reality!!
Never have answers to any question 🤬🤬🤬
Why is she even employed. Justice involved individuals. Oh, pleeeezzzzz!
I always love when someone who works for the government tells a senator they won’t provide information about what, exactly, they are doing. Fire them all; shut down the department.
Holy sh@t this is crazy!
Jesus, do any of our top officials know how to do their jobs… how the hell do you not know these basic numbers? How is someone NOT doing your job know more about it 😖
But she knows how to be inclusive like saying “justice-involved individuals”. That’s all that matters: That she doesn’t think too hard and talks as she’s told to talk.
You can't answer any questions? FIND HER IN CONTEMPT!
Either she refuses to answer or she really knows nothing. Which is worse?
I am stunned. Just stunned. How these questions do not get answered? Its a disgrace that these people get away with this
Right they should have a laptop with them so they can look it up on the spot
When I worked for the BOP, a regional director’s visit was a dog and pony show. Everything was brushed up to look perfect. There were accounts, at some facilities, of snow being covered with flower and bushes being sprayed with food coloring. A visit from the director must be a nightmare.
A trick the “leaf eaters” (administrators or folks with no inside prison experience) play to get hazardous duty retirement, is to come from their cushy regional or central offices to work in a prison for three years, then return to their administrative jobs.
Former Assistant Director, Peter Carlson believed (with some legitimate exceptions) that all BOP administrative staff should be correctional officers for at least one year before getting promoted to any other position.
Ahhhhh the ‘process’.
This administration is Absolutely AWFUL....
No Questions were answered.
HandcuffsAndPerpWalks Immediately!!!!!
'Justice Involved Individual', Dear God where do they dream up this utter woke BS ?
What are you getting paid for this is ridiculous Go Trump
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:16 📆 Delays in providing responses to the committee's written questions are attributed to an ongoing review process with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
00:45 🤔 The term "Justice-involved individuals" is used instead of "criminals and victims" to be more encompassing but raises questions about clarity and semantics.
02:48 📊 The prison system is struggling to meet the mandated 90% time allocation for employees to focus on their primary responsibilities, indicating staffing issues.
04:22 ❓ Lack of precise data on the number of employed correctional officers suggests poor oversight and record-keeping.
05:58 🛠️ The prison system needs to prioritize recruiting and hiring core staff (correctional officers) over support and headquarters personnel.
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Wow, that amount of questions she could not answer was astonishing!!
Government officials refuse to answer the simplest questions.
If I gave those kinds of answers to the board of directors they would fire me on the spot.
This woman should not be in charge of a closet.
Imagine going into a interview and not having a single answer for why you are qualified for the job and walking out with the employment opportunity this is absurb
How much does this woman that has no answers for questions pertaining to her job, make
annually?
Arrogance is spewing out this woman
If I was her employer,and she was so incredibly incompetent,I would sack her from her well paid position.
So now we don’t want to shame and marginalize criminals? This is out of hand.
She claims she doesn't know the numbers because she is corrupt and/or incompetent. Either way, she should be behind those bars then she may report those numbers as a consequence of lived experiences.
Calling a justice-involved individual a "criminal" might cast those individuals in an unflattering light.
OK, call them "the accused" until convicted. Actually, something the Biden regime seems to have forgotten when persecuting J6 political prisoners, "Innocent until proven guilty". So the accused should be treated with a modicum of respect until convicted. That means no J6 prisoners should have ever been put in solitary or denied medicine or even haircuts.
Yes and you might get sued calling them a criminal!!
"We want to get the answers right".... Nothing can be right if there are kNOw answers!
OMG..... if I answered these questions in front of my employer..... they would say YOU'RE FIRED 😮
This woman should be held in contempt (incarcerated), until HER staff supplies all the answer to the question ask of her.
I like that. A row of cells in the basement for bureaucrats who refuse to give answers. Or, even better, send them to the DC jail to be held with the J6 political prisoners until they get the answers from their organization and give them to Congress.
I used to work for a Fortune 500 company. If I had given these same answers to questions, I’d have been dismissed immediately. These bureaucracies are like a cesspool, the biggest chunks rise to the top.
This woman is the perfect example of what is wrong with the federal government!
Maybe you could just state that you have no intention of answering any questions, at any time. It would save me a few tax dollars. Thanks.
Hey come on, They're gonna get that 90% someday! When? "I can't answer that..."
How dare she not no the answer to any questions !!! what does she do all day 😂😂😂
Wow so now victims and perpetrators are put in the same category as "justice involved individuals". This is Orwell-speak, that's what this is.
What a mess
Should be immediate termination of job and befefits if a person does not answer even one question or lies. They have an obligation to provide All information that is paid for theough taxes and/or fees. No more stalling or LIES.
Spending time in a jail cell would prompt a quicker reply.
Need to have a time limit on getting information to congress