https://reason.com/2026/04/15/sen-mike-lee-says-federal-prison-hung-up-on-him-when-he-tried-to-check-on-inmate/
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But when Lee called the prison's main switchboard, he said a BOP employee scolded him for calling "too fucking late," and refused to provide any information, beyond claiming that the inmate was alive and receiving appropriate medical care. When Lee persisted in asking for the employee's name, Lee said the staffer hung up.
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In 2020, the daughters of a woman who died at a federal women's prison in Alabama told Reason they had been calling for weeks to try and get help for their mother's deteriorating health, but the prison staffers "were hanging up in our faces."
"They laughed at her," one of the daughters said. "They said she was faking. They told us she was too young to be having a heart attack."
