Bureau of Prisons

The Bureau of Prisons formalized key policies advocates say should help LGBTQ people inside—even under Trump.

For those predisposed to mental illness, isolation can induce anxiety, depression, distortions, paranoia, even psychosis.

"Everyone in here is saying that only a black president would do something like this."

Charles E. Samuels told Congress that prisoners aren't placed in solitary—a.k.a. "the hole"—but inmates VICE spoke to say that's flat-out untrue.

It's not easy keeping up with social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter from inside the prison-industrial complex, but convicts find a way.

As heroin use surges among the general public, the drug has become a mainstay in the prison system, where the common overdose treatment Naloxone is still hard to come by.