The Latest Breaking News from Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Prison Oversight Act would create an independent ombudsman to investigate complaints about the Bureau of Prisons, something prison advocacy groups have long called for.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation Wednesday to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons

A former California prison chaplain who pleaded guilty to forcing an inmate to have sex with him is facing sentencing in a federal court

Recent revelations have only fed speculation that some form of plot lay behind the gangster’s brutal demise in prison

Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison where he was often held in solitary confinement to a medium-security federal prison in Arizona, where the former police officer convicted in George Floyd’s killing may be held under less restrictive conditions

Policies governing abortion and reproductive health care services in U.S. prisons and jails were restrictive and often hostile even before the Supreme Court removed Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protections for abortions. After the June ruling, many reproductive services stand to be prohibited altogether, putting the health of incarcerated women who…

"Where is the fairness?" One mother was sent back after a single failed drug test, and her family's life has now been turned upside down for more than a year.

Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, who was sentenced to 2 1/2 years for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, has been ordered to report to a low-security federal prison camp in Colorado in two weeks

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he plans to hold an oversight hearing on the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons after The Associated Press reported that the agency is keeping its embattled ex-director on the payroll as an adviser to his successor

The federal Bureau of Prisons is keeping its former director on the payroll as an adviser to his successor, at least for a short time

Attorney General Merrick Garland has sworn in the new director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, as the Biden administration looks to reform the beleaguered agency