Category: Prison

Ghislaine Maxwell and the January 6th Rioters can teach important lessons about the conditions in Federal Prison.

The Government Accountability Office has proposed changes that highlight the struggles of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) the past few years. These issues range from budget crises, poor ways of tracking staffing and overtime work, all the way down to federal inmates leaving “dummies” in their cells and bringing contraband into the prisons. These issues […]

As long as the Bureau of Prisons' budget is tied to the number of inmates it houses, the BOP will always try to house as many inmates as possible.

The Office of the Inspector General Indicates that people are Escaping from the BOP and are coming back with Drugs and Booze.

Senators Durbin and Grassley have asked the Attorney General to reconsider a proposed regulation that would substantially affect the rewards for engaging in Evidence-Based Recidivism Programming.

Director Carvajal’s statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee fueled a search for new guidance from the BOP on home confinement for incarcerated individuals. The Federal Defenders have retrieved the April 13, 2021 Memorandum concerning home confinement.

A list of articles about law and justice from around the web that relate to federal prisoners and their loved ones .

On January 26, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order calling for the elimination of private federal prisons.

"Safe, humane, cost-efficient, and appropriately secure," - The Bureau of Prisons' mission appears right there on the website. And yet, the BOP's policies regularly endanger inmate safety and humanity, particularly regarding COVID-19 cases.

A Federal Prosecutor has indicated that individuals on home confinement on the CARES Act may be going back to prison after the pandemic.