The controversial appointment of Josh Smith as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Prisons has drawn ire from employees while many inmates are supportive. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News President Donald Trump in early June did something that no president in American history had| Consortium News
After a minor change in a judge's order, the Trump administration arranged to move over a dozen transgender women to men's facilities.| The Marshall Project
At least one trans woman in federal prison says Trump’s executive order has already prevented her from receiving hormone therapy, leading to “thoughts of suicide and self-harm.”| The Appeal
“I’d rather not live than be forced to live as a man,” a trans woman in a federal prison in New Jersey said in a sworn statement.| theappeal.org
As the pandemic worsened inside federal prisons, officials granted fewer releases.| The Marshall Project