Federal Bureau of Prisons

President Donald Trump on Sunday announced his intention to reconstruct and reopen Alcatraz, the infamous former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, as a functioning maximum-security facility for “America's most ruthless and violent offenders.”  What To Know: Trump described...

The United States has seen a lot of recent overlap in stories involving transgendered and incarcerated communities. In January, there was both the pardoning of Chelsea Manning and the first state-funded gender reassignment surgery for an American inmate. In February, a New Hampshire prison debated...