Yet challenges remain. Despite receiving more than $400 million annually under the First Step Act, the Bureau of Prisons has ...

Public Safety Contraband entering federal prison in Sheridan through drone and duffel bag drops, feds say Published: Jun. 13, 2025, 7:00 a.m.

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner was held in restraints so tight that he had to have a limb amputated.

Based on the Supreme Court's jurisprudence on this issue, until lawmakers act, federal officials will continue to exist in what Judge Don Willett—a Trump appointee to the U.S. Court of Appeals ...