Bureau of Prisons

The Bureau of Prisons will close facilities housing thousands of inmates. The federal prison in Big Spring, Texas, is among the facilities to close.

Staff for the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees visited the Texas federal prison facility where Ghislaine Maxwell is held as part of an investigation into her transfer and treatment. Lawmakers expressed doubts about the truthfulness of information provided by prison officials regarding Maxwell's circumstances and raised concerns about her treatment and allegations at the facility.

A woman was sent back to federal prison after objecting to rooming with a biological male sex offender at a Rhode Island halfway house. The woman, Sarah Cavanaugh, had been serving out the remainder of her sentence at Houston House, a halfway house in Rhode Island. She was returned to prison for six months after raising concerns about sharing a room with the male offender.

A woman was sent back to federal prison after objecting to rooming with a biological male sex offender at a Rhode Island halfway house. The woman, Sarah Cavanaugh, had raised concerns about sharing a room with the individual, who was convicted of a heinous sex crime. The incident has raised concerns about the Bureau of Prisons' compliance with President Donald Trump's directive on transgender inmates.

The Justice Department has directed the Bureau of Prisons to expand death penalty protocols to include pentobarbital injections and firing squads, aiming to streamline executions for death-sentenced inmates who exhaust their appeals. This move aligns with broader efforts to strengthen the federal death penalty system.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced the readoption of firing squads and pentobarbital injections as execution methods to expand federal death penalty protocols. The move aims to streamline death penalty cases and restore the DOJ's 'solemn duty' to implement capital sentences after inmates exhaust appeals.

Michael Avenatti, a disgraced lawyer convicted of fraud and theft, has been transferred to a federal halfway house in California with a projected release date of September 2028. His legal troubles include multiple convictions related to financial misconduct and a controversial past as Stormy Daniels' attorney.