OIG official: investigations target corrupt staff, contraband cell phones as prosecutions rise Sandra Barnes, Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, said the OIG opens parallel criminal and administrative probes across U.S. prisons, fields about 17,000 complaints a year (80% tied to the BOP), and is seeing more prosecutions for false statements and other crimes tied to contraband and staff misconduct.

Federal prisons are facing a surge in misconduct investigations, with the OIG receiving 17,000 complaints annually and ramping up prosecutions for serious crimes like contraband and excessive force.

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BOP director warns of rising contraband, cites drone drops and calls for more counter‑drone funding The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons warned that drugs, cell phones and weapons continue to enter federal prisons, cited deployment of naloxone more than 500 times and 228 attempted drone drops, and said a roughly $900,000 allocation for the counter‑drone program is insufficient.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is sounding the alarm on a troubling surge in contraband, including drugs and drones, as they call for urgent resources to combat this escalating crisis.

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Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2025 The big picture on how many people are locked up in the United States and why

#MassIncarceration🇺🇸 2 million people plus in 1,566 #StatePrisons, 98 #FederalPrisons, 3,116 #LocalJails, 1,277 #JuvenileCorrectionalFacilities, 133 #ImmigrationDetentionFacilities, & 80 #IndianCountryJails, as well as in #MilitaryPrisons, #CivilCommitmentCenters, #StatePsychiatricHospitalsAndPrisons

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District-court judges have repeatedly used #NationwideInjunctions to block #Trump admin policies, including to halt the #MassFirings of civil servants, the defunding of #ForeignAid & the relocation of #transgender women in #FederalPrisons to men’s housing. Some of those injunctions have been […]

Trump touts ‘very strong’ Alcatraz as Bureau of Prisons assessing reopening prison
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Trump Orders Reconstruction and Reopening of Alcatraz to House America’s Most Dangerous Criminals

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A few of these orders are a rollback of protections for #transgender individuals and aim to terminate #Diversity, #Equity, and #Inclusion (#DEI) programs in the #FederalGovernment, defining sex strictly as male and female based on #ReproductiveCapabilities, impacting #FederalPrisons, shelters...

@adammockler.bsky.social with @meidastouch.com Network breaks down @aoc.bsky.social wrecking trump stooges like #ElonMusk and #VivekRamaswamy. They're planning to cut the #VAhealthcare, #Pellgrants, #NIH, #HeadStartPrograms, the #FBI, #SEC and #FederalPrisons
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FCI Dublin prison closure: Women describe horrific journey across U.S. Dozens of women have shared horrific-sounding bus rides to prisons across the country as the Bureau of Prisons abruptly shut down FCI Dublin last week.

FCI Dublin prison closure: Women describe horrific journey across U.S.
Dozens of women have shared horrific-sounding bus rides 2 prisons across the country as the Bureau of Prisons abruptly shut down FCI Dublin
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Chaotic Dublin prison closure leads to fighting, crying, cutting, inmates say Women prisoners have been sent on grueling cross-country bus trips and flights – some without medical prescriptions or sanitary products, inmates say – with little sense of their destination.

Chaotic Dublin prison closure leads to fighting, crying, cutting, inmates say.
“I understand that we’re criminals,” one inmate says. “But we’re still human beings.”
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More secrecy: Another Trump-connected inmate leaving federal prison while thousands struggle to escape COVID-19 • Florida Phoenix With thousands of inmates in highly-infected prisons still behind bars, another Trump-connected federal inmate is leaving early and under unusual circumstances, raising questions about who gets out and who stays in federal prisons across the country. Michael Cohen, longtime personal attorney for President Donald Trump, was  released early from federal prison on Thursday amid health […]

More secrecy: Another Trump-connected inmate leaving federal prison while thousands struggle to escape COVID-19via @flphoenixnews #FlaPol #FloridaNews #federalprisons #coronavirusFL

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Trump ally Manafort is out but Bureau of Prisons is keeping secret other federal inmates released to "home confinement" • Florida Phoenix President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort got out of federal prison Wednesday to serve in home confinement, but thousands of eligible inmates remain behind bars despite federal orders to release them to reduce infections and deaths caused by coronavirus in prisons. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has refused to disclose any details about […]

Trump ally Manafort is out but Bureau of Prisons is keeping secret other federal inmates released to “home confinement”via @flphoenixnews #FlaPol #FloridaNews #coronavirus #federalprisons #homeconfinement

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At one federal prison, more than half of inmates infected with COVID-19; across the country, 33 inmates dead • Florida Phoenix Expanded testing for COVID-19 in federal prisons is revealing far more infections behind bars, including one prison where more than half of the inmates have tested positive for the disease. By Thursday evening, the federal inmate death toll across the nation was 33, up from 28 on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. […]

At one federal prison, more than half of inmates infected with COVID-19; across the country, 33 inmates deadvia @flphoenixnews #FlaPol #FloridaNews #federalprisons #coronavirus

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