Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman whom the president pardoned during his first term, now advocates for inmate ...

The problems at the Bureau of Prisons transcend administrations and facilities. With San Francisco in the background, Alcatraz Island is pictured on Monday, May 5, 2025, in the San Francisco Bay ...

Meanwhile, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Alcatraz, the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, has sat idle for more than a year after the Bureau of Prisons cleared it of ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them Skyrocketing repair and supply costs compelled the Justice Department to close the prison in 1963.

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal ...

Meanwhile, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Alcatraz, the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, has sat idle for more than a year after the Bureau of Prisons cleared it of ...