California senators have released a statement condemning the Trump administration's intention to use federal Bureau of Prisons facilities to detain refugees and asylum-seekers.

The Bureau of Prisons had a retention bonus to keep workers on the job as the agency was losing employees. Now, the retention bonus has become another casualty of DOGE.

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons said the decision to severely curtail retention incentive payments across the federal carceral system stems from fixed cost increases associated with operating under a continuing resolution.

The decree promises ongoing trauma-related health care for the affected inmates and oversight to prevent future abuse.

Seven senators, including two from California, wrote to the U.S. Attorney General objecting to a plan that would use federal prisons to detain immigrants "swept up in the Trump Administration's mass deportation efforts,

Two U.S. lawmakers have asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold an “urgent” hearing about the Trump administration’s decision to hold detained migrants — many of whom are seeking asylum — in federal prisons.

The Bureau of Prisons is financially ... expressed their concern over turning federal prisons into immigration detention centers. And on Thursday, two California Democratic senators, Adam Schiff ...

An agency official told House lawmakers the federal prisons are holding about 700 immigration detainees as of Wednesday morning.