In his latest assault on transgender Americans, President Donald Trump has ordered federal prisons to house transgender women in men’s facilities and halt their gender-related healthcare. The directive follows an executive order Trump issued on his first day in office declaring the federal government would recognize only two “immutable” sexes,

Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters is out as the head of the beleaguered agency and her track record was mixed.

"As you know, I just signed a pardon and, in the pardon, we released 23 people that were unjustly put in having to do with pro-life," Trump said in remarks to reporters outside the White House Friday.

The order reverses Biden’s ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Private immigrant detention never stopped and is expected to grow.

In an executive order, the president also moved to end gender-related medical treatments for transgender people in prison.

High-profile January 6 rioter Guy Reffitt showed up in Washington, DC, on Wednesday to celebrate with his wife and supporters who’d been hoping for his release from federal detention for months.

The Trump administration authorized U.S. Marshals, DEA and Bureau of Prisons officers to conduct immigration enforcement.

Oklahoma's top prosecutor is asking the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he can be executed for killing a 77-year-old woman in 1999.

Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday, after the new president pardoned more than 1,

Trump’s order says it is intended to protect women’s spaces from those who “self-identify” as women. It defines the sexes in an unconventional way, based on the reproductive cells — large cells in females or small ones in males. And it suggests that humans have those cells at conception.

The action’s impact is limited to contracts with the Bureau of Prisons and U.S. Marshals Service.