Bureau of Prisons employees confused over offers to resign sent by the Office of Personnel Management. The BOP is currently without a director and the changes are coming fast.
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.
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 announced Wednesday that he planned on signing an executive order to create a facility at Guantánamo Bay on the U.S. military base in Cuba to house at least 30,000 undocumented immigrants that his administration has begun rounding up to deport.
The day after Trump signed the executive order, officials moved Moe into solitary confinement pending her transfer to a men’s facility. Her sex classification was changed from “female” to “male” on publicly available Bureau of Prisons records and officials were slated to end access to hormones she’s taken since her transition as a teenager.
U.S. District Judge George O’Toole in Boston issued a temporary restraining order on Sunday, barring federal prison officials from relocating the inmate, known in court filings as Marie Moe, Reuters reported.
The Trump administration authorized U.S. Marshals, DEA and Bureau of Prisons officers to conduct immigration enforcement.
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 serving in a federal prison has filed a lawsuit arguing that President Donald Trump's executive order directing the U.S. government to recognize only two, unchangeable sexes and requiring inmates like her to be housed in men's prisons violates the U.