By Andrew Ramonas
From MainJustice.com
WASHINGTON -- Harley Lappin will retire as the Justice Department Bureau of Prisons Director on May 7.
Lappin, a career public administrator, has led the agency that has jurisdiction over the federal prison system since April 2003, overseeing more than 100 prisons and the care of about 200,000 inmates. He is the seventh Bureau of Prisons Director since the agency’s creation in 1930.
The Director has held various administrative posts at the bureau since his start as a case manager at a Texarkana, Texas, federal prison in 1985. He was warden at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., when Oklahoma city bomber Tomothy McVeigh was executed at the facility in 2001.
“I am grateful for Director Lappin’s wise counsel, as well as his dedication to the Justice Department,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. “And I am certain that, for years to come, the Bureau of Prisons and the American people will continue to benefit from his thoughtful contributions.”
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