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New legislation in the Senate requires the Justice Department to establish guidelines for the federal Bureau of Prisons and state correctional systems to notify the families of inmates if their loved one has a serious illness, a life-threatening injury or if they die behind bars

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President Joe Biden is announcing that he has granted the first three pardons of his term

FORT WORTH, Texas — A judge has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to schedule gender-affirmation surgery for a transgender woman who has experienced repeated delays in receiving treatment, including when she was housed at a Fort Worth women's prison.

Cristina Nichole Iglesias has been trying for years to get the surgery. She’s set to be released from prison later this year.

The warden who ran the federal jail where disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself was allowed to quietly retire from the Bureau of Prisons in February

The finding, now forwarded to Attorney General Merrick Garland, involves the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, already under Justice Department scrutiny for rampant sexual abuse of inmates.

A government watchdog has found a “substantial likelihood” that the federal Bureau of Prisons committed wrongdoing when it ignored complaints and failed to address asbestos and mold contamination at a federal women’s prison in California