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Private Prisons in the United States – The Sentencing Project
The Sentencing Project
Twenty-seven states and the federal government incarcerated 90873 people in private prisons in 2022, representing 8% of the total state and...
2 months ago
Federal Bureau Of Prisons Faces Many Challenges In 2024
Forbes
With 2023 drawing to a close, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) completed its first full year under the leadership of Director Colette...
3 months ago
Efforts to Ease Federal Prison Overcrowding Are Ending
The Marshall Project
This is The Marshall Project's Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to...
3 months ago
Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Testifies on Prison Deaths
C-SPAN
Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified before the Senate...
1 month ago
Amid safety concerns, AFGE urges Congress to increase Bureau of Prisons funding
Federal News Network
Union officials are urging Congress to provide more funding to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. BOP has spent years struggling with staff...
1 month ago
US prisons were Covid hotbeds, inmates died nearly 3.5 times more than those outside
WION
State and federal prisons emerged as hotbeds for the COVID-19 virus in the wake of its outbreak in the US as there was a heightened risk...
5 days ago
New CCJ Analysis Estimates First Step Act Releases Have Lower Recidivism Rates, Arrests
Council on Criminal Justice
Calculations compare reoffending among people released under the FSA and similarly situated individuals released before the Act's...
8 months ago
Many federal inmates don't get medical care they need. Some don't survive
NPR
The Butner federal prison complex in North Carolina is where a quarter of federal inmate deaths occur. It includes a medical facility but...
7 months ago
U.S. prisons chief insists to Senate panel there's been 'visible change' in the system • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Iowa Capital Dispatch
Colette Peters, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, told senators that conditions in federal prisons have improved in the past year.
7 months ago
Texas' prison population grew more than any state from 2021-2022
Axios
In 2022, Texas had more total prison admissions than all of the federal penitentiaries nationwide.
1 month ago