Federal prisons

Dozens of civil rights and advocacy organizations are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment under President Donald Trump

President Joe Biden has ordered the Department of Justice to end its reliance on private prisons and acknowledge the central role the government has played implementing discriminatory housing policies

Prisons nationwide have been hit hard by COVID-19 but most states don’t have inmates near the front of the line for initial doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Since coronavirus entered the U.S., nearly 16,000 have fallen ill of COVID-19 and 134 have died. That number does not include people incarcerated in state prisons across the U.S. The Marshall Project’s criminal justice reporter Keri Blakinger explains why the general public should care about protecting people in prisons.

After weeks of pressure from family members and government officials, an inmate at Terminal Island federal prison walked out Thursday morning, leaving behind the growing coronavirus threat inside.  It was a long awaited reunion. Jovena Defrancia said she pushed for weeks to get prison officials to allow her husband, Jason Defrancia, to come home, saying she felt his safety...

The NBC4 I-Team captured the moment a prisoner at Terminal Island federal prison managed to walk away early from his sentence and the growing coronavirus threat inside. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 14, 2020.

The federal Bureau of Prisons is locking inmates in their cells at all its facilities for 14 days in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus