A new interim director has been tapped to lead the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) as President Donald Trump looks to enforce a crackdown on transgender inmates in facilities that do not match ...

Longtime Lewisburg federal prison inmate Leonard Peltier will be released from jail in February after former President Joe ...

Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. Most inmates in Wisconsin’s federal prison, and in federal prisons nationally, are U.S. citizens. Following Trump administration arrests of ...

A federal judge temporarily halted the transfer of a transgender inmate to a men’s prison under President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting gender-related accommodations in federal ...

A former North Carolina federal prison lieutenant, Daniel Mitchell, has been convicted after he pleaded guilty for “conspiring to violate civil rights.” According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, ...

The lawsuit seems to be the first of its kind filed nationwide to challenge an order that directs the federal government to recognise only two biologically distinct sexes, male and female. The order ...

An attorney for the inmate declined to comment. The U.S. Justice Department, which oversees the federal Bureau of Prisons, declined to comment. Identified by the pseudonym Maria Moe, the plaintiff ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s top prosecutor asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he could be executed for his role in the kidnapping and killing of ...

It bars transgender women from women’s prisons and prohibits federal funds from being used for “any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance ...