William W. Lothrop was named interim Bureau of Prisons director after Colette Peters' resignation, as the president aims to enforce stricter policies on transgender inmates in prisons.

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.

A transgender inmate has filed the first lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging an executive order halting medical transition treatments for federal prisoners.

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has left her position amid President Donald Trump's efforts to implement drastic reforms to the Justice Department.

The order reverses Biden’s ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Private immigrant detention never stopped and is expected to grow.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that prohibits biological males—who comprise 15% of inmates in federal women’s prisons—from being housed in female detention facilities. The order also bans the use of federal funds for gender transition procedures,

Trans people in federal custody are already feeling immediate impacts of the order, the ACLU’s Gillian Branstetter says.

Donald Trump's recent prison executive order is one of several seeking to restrict transgender people to their sex assigned at birth.

A transgender woman in federal prison has sued President Donald Trump over an executive order he issued on his first day back in office seeking to define “sex” in a way the lawsuit says is “intentionally designed to discriminate against transgender people” and “deny them equal treatment.”

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

ICE has take a spotlight role in the wake of plans in Trump's administration for mass deportations. Here's what you need to know about the agency.

Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday, after the new president pardoned more than 1,