In 2017 in the initial days of Donald Trump’s first term, he instituted a government hiring freeze while exempting "essential areas" from the freeze.

A transgender inmate has filed the first lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging an executive order halting medical transition treatments for federal prisoners.

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has left her position amid President Donald Trump's efforts to implement drastic reforms to the Justice Department.

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

A transgender woman in federal prison has sued President Donald Trump over an executive order he issued on his first day back in office seeking to define “sex” in a way the lawsuit says is “intentionally designed to discriminate against transgender people” and “deny them equal treatment.”

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

ICE has take a spotlight role in the wake of plans in Trump's administration for mass deportations. Here's what you need to know about the agency.

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,

Violent Jan 6 rioter pardoned by Donald Trump being sought on charges of child sex solicitation - Andrew Taake, 36, was released from federal prison despite a formal request by Texas prosecutors to ke

President Donald Trump signs executive order for mass deportation to ensue, while dissolving previous ban on private prisons. Here's what to know.

Trans people in federal custody are already feeling immediate impacts of the order, the ACLU’s Gillian Branstetter says.