CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP. The previous director of the Bureau of Prisons, Michael D. Carvajal, resigned in 2022 amid reports of widespread corruption in the federal prison system.

Four inmates escaped early Saturday from a federal prison camp in Hopewell, Virginia, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

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 ...

My granddaughter died in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.She was eight months pregnant, and bureau officials thought it was a good idea to put her on a plane from South Dakota to the ...

Legislators said the violence is in part due to persistent understaffing. Congress members from Illinois appealed to the Bureau of Prisons in 2021 for worker retention bonuses, writing that the ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employees who were charged with guarding accused sex offender Jeffrey Epstein did not search his jail cell as required and failed to check on him for hours ...

The report portrayed a short-staffed Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) system in which inmates are easily able to smuggle in dangerous contraband and go unsupervised as they kill themselves and others.

Fabian Tinsley died in April as an inmate at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina. 224 days later, his family still doesn't have his body. Skip Navigation ...

But skyrocketing repair and supply costs compelled the Justice Department to close the prison in 1963, just 29 years after it opened, and the Bureau of Prisons has long since replaced Alcatraz ...