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After Judge’s Letter, at Least 22 Former FCI Dublin Prisoners Granted Compassionate Release by Matthew Clarke In May 2024, California federal District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers took the unusual step of writing a letter to numerous other judges who had sentenced women formerly incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Dublin and …
News in Brief by Alabama: On Sunday, June 15, 2025, state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Airika Dorsey was arrested for allegedly smuggling food to a prisoner at St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to WABM in Birmingham. The DOC confirmed that Dorsey was caught in the act and subsequently booked …
Former Prisoner Informant Appointed Deputy Director of BOP by On June 5, 2025, Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) tapped Tennessee businessman Joshua J. Smith, 50, to serve as Deputy Director of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Smith, whom Trump pardoned in his first term, is the first former prisoner …
Jury Deadlocks at Trial of Last BOP Guard Accused at California “Rape Club” by A jury deadlocked in federal court for the Northern District of California on April 14, 2025, leading Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to declare a mistrial for Darrell Wayne Smith, 55, a former federal Bureau of Prisons …
BOP Jettisons Transgender Offender Manual by In a memo dated February 25, 2025, acting federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director William Lothrop canceled the agency’s Transgender Offender Manual and ordered its removal from federal prison libraries and the BOP intranet. The move is the latest attempt to comply with an …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Trump Guts BOP Guard Union by An executive order signed by Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) on March 27, 2025, stripped collective bargaining rights from federal unions, including those representing guards working for the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The guards had already lost most or all of their incentive …
Cruelty Is Now the Point for BOP by Just before leaving office in January 2025, outgoing Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) removed 37 federal prisoners from death row, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Jan. 2025, p.16.] But incoming Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) immediately directed his new Attorney General …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
ACLU Sues BOP Over Failure to Implement First Step Act Release Credits by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit in federal court for the District of Columbia on December 20, 2024, challenging the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for treating sentence credits …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
West Virginia Prison Chief Tapped to Helm BOP by On April 10, 2025, Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) announced his pick to assume control of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP): William K. “Billy” Marshall III, Commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR). The BOP has …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Federal Watchdog Calls Out BOP for Spiking Suicide Risk at Pennsylvania Lockup by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 26, 2024, United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz released findings from an unannounced inspection of the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Numerous violations …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Peters Fights Dismissal from BOP, Guards Lose Bonus Pay by The election of Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) has thrown the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) into turmoil. As PLN reported, former Director Collette Peters resigned just hours after the inauguration on January 20, 2025. [See: PLN, Feb. 2025, p.10.] …
Federal Court Lets BOP Withhold Mortality Reviews Under FOIA by The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held on August 1, 2024, that mortality reviews prepared by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) following a prisoner’s in-custody death may properly be withheld or heavily redacted in response to …
Federal Prison Oversight Act Becomes Law by On July 25, 2024, Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) signed into law the Federal Prison Oversight Act, now codified at 5 U.S.C. § 413. The law takes effect 90 days after appropriations are made available by Congress to implement and carry out the …
Eleventh Circuit Tells BOP Prisoner in Georgia: Bivens Is On “Endangered Species List” by On October 3, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit told a federal prisoner in Georgia that he could not hold the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) liable for damages caused by …
BOP Eases Money Grab from Federal Prisoners by On December 17, 2024, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) issued a proposed rule change to its Inmate Financial Responsibility Program (IFRP), outlining how much of a federal prisoner’s trust account may be garnished to satisfy restitution and other court-ordered payments. The …
BOP Shutters “Rape Club” in California, Director Peters Quits by The troubled federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) lost Director Collette Peters on January 20, 2025, when she resigned just as incoming Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) was sworn into to office. Peters held the job for just 30 months, and …
DOJ Directs BOP, U.S. Marshals to Improve Suicide Prevention by On December 3, 2024, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco issued a directive updating suicide prevention protocols and improving mental health assessments for federal prisoners and detainees. The reforms apply to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the U.S. …
Senate Votes to Increase Penalties for BOP Contraband Cellphone Smuggling by On September 28, 2024, the U.S. Senate passed legislation enhancing penalties for contraband cellphone possession in federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) lockups. Named after BOP Lt. Osvaldo Albarati, who was killed in a 2013 ambush arranged with contraband cellphones …
BOP Prisoners in Alabama Strike to Protest Release Date Confusion by On September 11, 2024, several prisoners began a hunger strike at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Montgomery, Alabama, protesting a frustrating lack of clarity about their release dates fully six years after the First Step Act of 2018 …
BOP Settles Muslim Prisoner’s Religious Discrimination and Medical Denial Claims at Colorado Supermax by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 26, 2024, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) entered into the last of multiple settlement agreements with a Muslim prisoner who accused the prison agency of failing to …
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