who is the head of the federal bureau of prisons
Hugh Hurwitz
title: Federal Bureau of Prisons text: Federal Bureau of Prisons The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is the United States branch of the government responsible for the custody, control, and care of the inmate in the United States. The BOP also holds inmates who have committed felonies in Washington, D.C. The BOP is also responsible for carrying out all judicially ordered federal executions (other than those carried out under military law) in the United States. Currently, the Bureau of Prisons is headed by Hugh Hurwitz, who is the current acting director. Mark S. Inch held the post from September 2017 until May 2018. The Federal Prison title: Federal Bureau of Prisons text: the U.S. Congress within the U.S. Department of Justice (which itself was created in 1870, to be headed by the Attorney General, whose office was first established in the first Presidential Cabinet under President Washington and created in 1789, along with the Secretaries of State, Treasury and War). The new Prison Bureau was now under the Administration of the 31st President Herbert Hoover, (1874–1964), and was charged with the "management and regulation of all Federal penal and correctional institutions." This responsibility covered the administration of the 11 federal prisons in operation at the time. By the end of the year title: Charles E. Samuels Jr. text: Charles E. Samuels Jr. Charles E. Samuels Jr. (born June 7, 1966) is the 8th and former director of the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the first African-American to be appointed to that post. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he received his B.S. in Criminal Justice in 1987 and in 2012 received the school's Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. As director, he was responsible for the oversight and management of the Bureau of Prisons, which employs more than 39,000 staff and confines over 200,000 inmates under jurisdiction of the agency. As a title: Federal Bureau of Prisons text: increase has decelerated since the early 2000s but the federal inmate population continues to grow. National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 transferred responsibility for adult felons convicted of violating District of Columbia laws to the BOP. In August 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions named retired Maj. Gen. Mark S. Inch as the BOP's new director. As of 2015, 63% of BOP employees are white, 22% are black, 12% are Hispanic, 2% are Asian and 1% identify as another race. 73% are male. All BOP employees undergo 200 hours of formal training in their first year of employment. title: Federal Bureau of Prisons text: System existed for more than 30 years before the BOP was established. Although its wardens functioned almost autonomously, the Superintendent of Prisons, a Department of Justice official in Washington, was nominally in charge of federal prisons, starting with the passage of the "Three Prisons Act' in 1891, which authorized the federal government's first three penitentiaries: USP Leavenworth, USP Atlanta, and USP McNeil Island with limited supervision by the United States Department of Justice afterwards. Until 1907, prison matters were handled by the Justice Department's General Agent. The General Agent was responsible for Justice Department accounts, oversight of internal operations, and