The bipartisan Pregnant Women in Custody Act would establish standards for medical care and nutrition for women in custody.

Cristina Nichole Iglesias is seeking gender-affirming surgery after waiting for years.

The head of the Bureau of Prisons is a Trump holdover who has been in charge as the coronavirus raged behind bars, infecting more than 43,000 federal inmates.

The Trump administration carried out 13 executions in six months.

‘All of the guards, all of health care workers, all of the individuals that go in and out of prison are spreading it in society,’ said a criminal justice reform advocate.

The Bureau of Prisons continues to struggle with an exploding number of coronavirus cases in its prisons.

‘It was complete chaos and no one seemed to know the answers,’ one female inmate told the American Independent Foundation.

Health officials have been warning for more than a decade about the dangers of epidemics in jails and prisons, which are ideal environments for virus outbreaks.

Accounts detail a scattershot policy on COVID-19 safety at the federal Bureau of Prisons amid the growing pandemic.