A judge says the federal Bureau of Prisons must keep providing hormone therapy to hundreds of transgender inmates following ...

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said a federal law prohibits prison officials from arbitrarily depriving inmates of ...

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over the last few years, including widespread criminal activity by employees, ...

The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary officially closed more than 62 years ago. The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three times ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — An armed career criminal has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for having a firearm as a felon with a three-year-old child. Tamarious Simone Johnson, 35 ...

A former Hendry County sheriff's deputy convicted of using excessive force will spend just few than three years in federal prison, a judge ruled this week. District Judge Sheri P. Chappell ...

A Post Falls resident was sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison for aiming a laser pointer at a Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office helicopter last summer. Aspen A. Schaffer ...

SACRAMENTO — Nearly 18 months after the first of six guilty verdicts, the federal government has ... while the other three are in prisons in Victorville, records show. A sixth Aryan Brotherhood ...

A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons to “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” — the notorious ...

SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump said he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay to "house America’s ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons Has Lots of Problems. Reopening Alcatraz Is Now One of Them Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog.

In addition to this Alcatraz was “nearly three times more expensive to operate than any other Federal prison.” The closure was ordered by Robert F. Kennedy, who was Attorney General at the time.