Senate Judiciary Hearing to Focus on Whistleblower Claims, OJJDP Grants [JJIE.org]

     Senator Grassley has been known to review data of other programs, like Medicare and medicaid to ascertain how many physicians may be writing 80+ prescriptions for the same drug, for different "patients", per day [at a rate of one every six minutes-if time & motion studies are valid indicators that something is "amiss"], and I think that is an appropriate exercise of Congressional Oversight responsibility, judging from the data that I have seen. 

     This situation of states jailing juveniles in Adult facilities, after receiving federal Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention funding, intended to avert such Adverse Childhood (teenage) Experiences, by juveniles being placed in Adult prisons, also strikes me as an appropriate exercise of Congressional Oversight, too! 

     I can recall when New York State changed a policy, which resulted in "Youthful Offenders" being placed in Adult prisons like Attica, because  all "parole violators" [whether the alleged violation was 'technical" or "substantive"] were sent to the nearest prison. It occurred at a time when a New York prison Chaplain, who was president of the American Correctional Chaplains association, had testified before the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee, proposing sending [Black] "Hard-Core Militant Prisoners" to a "Maxi-Maxi" Maximum Security facility, where prisoners stay in their cells 23 to 23 1/2 hours per day. This proposal included Youthful Offenders. (See: U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee testimony of Father James T. Collins). 

     During the 40th anniversary of the Attica "rebellion" conference, at SUNY Buffalo Law School, a historian who had reviewed telephone conversation transcripts between then President Richard Nixon and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, noted Nixon's praise for how Governor Rockefeller had handled the situation.... (see "Attica 40" Facebook page, and video of conference presenter Historian Teresa Lynch of University of NH-Manchester.)