Life Inside
September 12
“They booked me into a cell where there was a paper sign over the toilet saying DON’T DRINK THE WATER.”
Life Inside
September 5
“The typing room is where the optimism of naive, hopeful, recently incarcerated inmates goes to die.”
News
August 14
A hiring freeze by the Trump administration shrank the federal prison workforce at twice the rate of the declining prison population.
Analysis
August 9
If it sounds too good to be true, legal experts say, it probably is.
News
June 18
About 750 federal inmates will be transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody starting in mid-July.
News
June 5
Officials are trying to line up jobs and housing for 2,200 inmates who are scheduled to be freed in July under the First Step Act.
Life Inside
January 17
There will be beans (there's always beans). And half of a chicken.
News
January 7
Family visits canceled, guards driving for Uber, rising tensions and more.
Feature
November 21, 2018
The Bureau of Prisons set higher standards for psychiatric care. But instead of helping more inmates, the agency dropped thousands from its caseload, data shows.
News
January 26, 2018
The bureau relents in a stalemate over pepper spray.