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An employee and union leader at FCI Gilmer in Glenville is raising the alarm over financial issues and staffing practices that he says threaten the prison’s safety and security.
Yet challenges remain. Despite receiving more than $400 million annually under the First Step Act, the Bureau of Prisons has ...
At least two people arrested by federal immigration agents on Thursday at immigration court in San Francisco have since been ...
The First Step Act was more fully implemented under Peters during 2023. Since the Federal Register issued its final rule in January 2022, the BOP had a number of missteps in trying to get ...
The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them Alcatraz Island is pictured on Sunday, May 4, 2025, in the San Francisco Bay, Calif. Credit: AP/Noah Berger ...
An inmate at a correctional facility in Butner has died after being found with “life-threatening injuries” on Monday morning, according to a news release.
The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them A visitor looks at the warden's house at Alcatraz Island on Monday, May 5, 2025, in San Francisco.
Meanwhile, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Alcatraz, the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, has sat idle for more than a year after the Bureau of Prisons cleared it of ...