When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving time fo ...

Trump says the 'worst of the worst' are being sent to Guantanamo. ACLU says some are low-risk, have no access to counsel or outside world.

Tennessee's largest private prison has placed its warden on administrative leave as it faces an ongoing federal investigation into alleged civil rights violations.

Rockview state prison is slated for closure under a plan unveiled Monday by Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration, a proposal that would save the state tens of millions of dollars but also have untold ...

Senator Dan Stec (R, C-Queensbury) is Introducing legislation to make body scanners mandatory for incarcerated individuals as ...

The Jinx' director Andrew Jarecki exposes shocking conditions in Alabama's prisons in the Sundance premiere documentary 'The ...

The SCI Camp Hill inmate accused of murdering a fellow inmate this week stabbed him in the head and neck area about 20 times with a pen, court documents show. The ...

Investigators are working to determine if a man serving a prison term for a Sacramento County burglary was killed by his cellmate on Wednesday, according to the California Department of Corrections ...

An inmate at the Camp Hill State Prison died after an attack by another inmate in a recreation yard, according to the superintendent. Spencer Kassel, 35, was pronounced dead on Wednesday morning. He ...

For some reason, in a flurry of last-minute clemencies earlier this month, President Joe Biden let the man with a kid’s blood on his hands out of prison when he commuted Peeler’s federal drug sentence ...

Federal prison records confirm at least five Washington men were released from custody Monday night after President Donald Trump issued sweeping pardons and sentence commutations for the hundreds ...