Contraband in prison and the costs of enforcing the rules is costing the Bureau of Prisons millions. A better solution may be pushing more people into community custody.

A federal judge is expected to rule Tuesday on a request to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three ...

William W. Lothrop was named interim Bureau of Prisons director after Colette Peters' resignation, as the president aims to ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.

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 new bill introduced in the House of Representatives would take on one of the biggest safety concerns in federal prisons.

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its new prison policy that would require transgender inmates to be housed based on their biological sex ...

The inmates who work inside federal prisons want the right to unionize like other public servants. The Canadian Prisoners’ Labour ConFederation (CPLC) and its president, Jeff Ewert, say the ...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump ... in men’s facilities and prohibits the Bureau of Prisons from providing gender-affirming care to inmates. Three transgender women currently housed ...

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 ...