Its leadership must manage a massive $8 billion-plus budget, more than 143,000 federal inmates across 122 prisons, and a workforce of more than 35,000 as the Justice Department’s largest employer.

The bureau, which houses more than 150,000 inmates convicted of federal crimes, agreed with the report's recommendations May 20 for improving care and said it would work to implement them.

Meanwhile, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Alcatraz, the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, has sat idle for more than a year after the Bureau of Prisons cleared it of ...

Even as the Bureau of Prisons struggles with short staffing, chronic violence and crumbling infrastructure, Trump is counting on the agency to fulfill his vision of rebooting Alcatraz.