WASHINGTON, D.C. - The head of the Bureau of Prisons is out of a job. Forbes reported that Colette Peters resigned on Monday, coinciding with President Donald Trump's first day in office. No reason was given.

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

In 2017 in the initial days of Donald Trump’s first term, he instituted a government hiring freeze while exempting "essential areas" from the freeze.

The Trump administration authorized U.S. Marshals, DEA and Bureau of Prisons officers to conduct immigration enforcement.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said the decision by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland did not change her view of Arizona's death protocol.

On December 20, 2024, CLRP, along with ACLU-DC and Jenner & Block, filed a federal lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and its Director for incarcerating thousands of people longer than the law allows under the First Step Act. Signed into law in ...

Arizona legislators seek to amend voter-approved trafficking law that could give life sentences to youth victims who were forced to commit crimes.

Arizona House Bill 2099 would require the governor and attorney general to comply with and enforce all federal immigration actions, regardless of legality.

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Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, quickly condemned the Trump administration’s offer to roughly 2 million federal employees to resign in exchange for pay, saying in a Senate floor speech that the deal was a trick, that the president didn’t have the authority to make the offer and employees who resign may not be paid.

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For years, immigration detention centers run by Geo Group and CoreCivic have been plagued by allegations of dangerous conditions, negligence and mismanagement, which the companies deny. And they’re about to get a massive influx of new detainees from President Trump’s mass deportation effort.