Y'all, it's Monday. We got a lot of news to talk about and break down today, so let's just jump into it.

Starting with. In news, that makes me sometimes wish that I was reporting this in front of a live audience so I could gauge reaction. Derek Chauvin was stabbed in prison and or, but he is expected to recover.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons on Friday saying that the stabbing happened in Tucson, Arizona, employees contained the incident and performed life-saving measures before Chauvin was taken to the hospital.

Though notably at the time, they didn't name the inmate in question.

But you also had sources telling several outlets that the person who had been stabbed was Derek Chauvin

and that he had been seriously injured.

And shortly after those reports, Minnesota's Attorney General confirmed who it was. So over the weekend, you had the BOP still refusing to identify the inmate who was stabbed or comment on their condition,

saying, for privacy and safety reasons, we are not providing the name of the victim or their medical status.

And actually, even one of Chauvin's own lawyers said he was unable to get any information from BOP, telling reporters the information has been stonewalled and adding,

I have reached out to the prison six times and asked to speak to somebody in each time I was rebuffed. Now, despite all that, a spokesperson for the Minnesota AG has since said that Chauvin is expected to survive the attack.

And while if you look online, people have varying reactions to the news of the stabbing and him surviving.

Regardless of those opinions, this incident has brought renewed scrutiny to the BOP and its inability to protect high-profile inmates. Because the BOP has been closely watched and criticized for this in particular in the years following Jeffrey Epstein's death while incarcerated in 2019.

And Chauvin's stabbing actually comes after a handful of other very high-profile incidents just over the last few months.

Right back in June, the Unabomber committed suicide at a federal medical facility, and in July, Larryassar was also stabbed in prison. And according to the Associated Press, this stabbing is also the second major incident at the Tucson federal prison

in a little over a year. Reporting in November 22, an inmate at the facility's low security

prison camp pulled out a gun and attempted to shoot a visitor in the head. And adding the weapon,

which the inmate shouldn't have had, misfired and no one was hurt. And the outlet also going on to say that it's been conducting an ongoing investigation of the flaws within the BOP that has, quote, revealed rampant

sexual abuse and other criminal conduct by staff, dozens of escapes, chronic violence, deaths,

and severe staffing shortages that have hampered responses to emergencies, including inmate

assaults and suicides. Right. And actually, on that last part, specifically, these incidents have come as the BOP is dealing with a massive shortage of corrections officers requiring in the

nation's prisons to use teachers, case managers, secretaries, and other facility workers to take on

shifts. In fact, a report from this past March found that one in five of the over 20,000 corrections

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