With 2023 drawing to a close, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) completed its first full year under the leadership of Director Colette Peters. Peters replaced controversial director Michael Carvajal ...

Federal prison officials say they’ve upped staffing levels and increased correction officer wages following a raft of complaints and violent incidents at the notorious MDC Brooklyn jail. The jail, ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and ...

The GAO released a study highlighting problems with the BOP's use (under use) of halfway houses. The BOP actually agrees which may be the first positive step to increase capacity of this important ...

The former head of Des Moines Public Schools is now serving a two-year sentence at an Illinois federal prison after pleading ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday a bill requiring the federal Bureau of Prisons to overhaul outdated security systems and fix broken surveillance cameras after rampant ...