Beth Schwartzapfel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.