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Cash-strapped Bureau of Prisons freezes some hiring to ‘avoid more extreme measures,’ director says
The Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic ...
Trump moves to reopen prisons and shuttered immigrant detention facilities for ICE
Two prison corporations and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have moved quickly to prepare facilities to hold immigrants in ...
The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them
An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...
Aryan Brotherhood members plucked from state prison into the federal system
The move ends nearly 18 months of litigation by one of the five men, who said he was looking forward to the change of scenery ...
Former prison employees sentenced after Virginia inmate’s medical needs neglected, resulting in death
Two former Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employees have been sentenced after an inmate’s medical needs were ignored in a ...
Trump directs Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz. Can he do that?
President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on ...
President Trump orders reopening of infamous Alcatraz prison
SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump said he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the infamous ...
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The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them
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 ...