Beth Schwartzapfel

“It’s a good time to be an American-born criminal,” said one expert, as ICE’s dragnet now includes thousands of agents from other federal law enforcement.

Farmer v. Brennan is one of the most cited Supreme Court cases of all time. Few people know just how revolutionary Dee Farmer was.

The Bureau of Prisons’ new deputy director’s past incarceration has drawn outrage from some officers — and support from people still inside.

The district judge ordered the prison system to continue providing hormone therapy to transgender people as needed, while a lawsuit proceeds.

A federal judge considers if the president’s executive order barring hormone treatment in the Bureau of Prisons is cruel and unusual punishment.

West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency, and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with problems of its own.

Prison Food Is a Growing Billion-Dollar Industry. Many Meals Are Inedible.

After a minor change in a judge's order, the Trump administration arranged to move over a dozen transgender women to men's facilities.

Without guidance from the Bureau of Prisons, trans people are “told one thing from one staff person and a totally different thing from another.”

Days before Trump’s inauguration, the Bureau of Prisons agreed to pay Grace Pinson $95,000 to drop more than a dozen pending lawsuits.

Few trans people receive gender-affirming housing and care in the federal prison system. This executive order would make it even harder.

With new restrictions on gender-affirming care, prisons confiscate underwear from trans people and compel them to cut their hair.

Key takeaways from our story about one trans woman’s legal battle for accountability.

What’s next for President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal cases, immigration policy, justice reform and more.

A Bureau of Prisons investigation found that Andrew Ciolli failed to stop violations of the use of force policy at one prison. Now he’s running an agency training center.

The Ballad of Grace Pinson

Donald Trump supporters run their version of the original dog-whistle attack ad against Kamala Harris. Here’s the history.

People leaving prisons and jails are at greater risk of illness and death, but for years they couldn’t use the government health insurance program.

Amid a wave of anti-trans legislation, and the violence that often follows, four people share their experiences in the criminal justice system.

In our final episode, we explore what “doing time” means and hear from listeners about Wideman being behind bars possibly for life.