119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Feb 24, 2025
Federal Prisons Accountability Act of 2025
Official title from Congress.gov
Latest action (Feb 24, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
View on Congress.govPolicy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in Senate (Feb 24, 2025)
Federal Prisons Accountability Act of 2025
This bill modifies the appointment procedures and term of service for the Director of the Bureau of Prisons.
Currently, the director is appointed by the Attorney General. This bill requires the director to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
The bill also limits the director to a single term of 10 years.
Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
No recorded roll calls on this bill in coverage.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
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Correctional facilities and imprisonment · Department of Justice · Federal officials
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COUNCIL OF PRISON LOCALS 33 · lobbying firm or registrant: ATRIO CONSULTING GROUP, LLC
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
$60,000
Paid to lobbying firm
Issues related to advocating for federal correctional workers and law enforcement policies (H.R. 2550, Protect America's Workforce Act; S. 698, Federal Prisons Accountability Act of 2025; S. 3626/H.R. 7033, Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act of 2026; S. 307, Prison Staff Safety Enhan…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
COUNCIL OF PRISON LOCALS 33 · lobbying firm or registrant: ATRIO CONSULTING GROUP, LLC
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 21, 2026 · issue area: Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
$60,000
Paid to lobbying firm
Issues related to advocating for federal correctional workers and law enforcement policies (H.R. 2550, Protect America's Workforce Act; S. 698, Federal Prisons Accountability Act of 2025; S. 3626/H.R. 7033, Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act of 2026).
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing