New York State's Bedford Hills Correctional facility, Illinois' Pontiac Correctional Center and Albion Correctional Facility in New York State are the three U.S. prisons with the highest reported ...

Four immigrants died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody during a four-day period last week, all of them in detention facilities run by private prison companies. Three died in prisons ...

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order this week establishing a federal framework around artificial intelligence, a move aimed at preempting states from imposing their own laws on the ...

Nicholas Jacobson had just been accused of murder when a raging infection nearly killed him. Left untreated for two weeks in a California jail, sepsis drove him into a coma as his organs started to ...

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS fighters and tens of thousands of their family members. By Alissa J. Rubin ...

On Nov. 12, news broke that Congress had finally agreed to reopen the federal government through the winter holidays, allowing food stamps to resume and government workers to start getting paid again.

Former NBA guard Sebastian Telfair is shedding light on daily life inside FCI Fort Dix, offering a firsthand perspective as ...

Former "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" star Jen Shah was released from federal prison Wednesday, more than four years early from her 6½-year sentence, a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Pennsylvania man serving a 13-month sentence at the United States Penitentiary in Florence died there on Sunday. Timothy Sowinski, 57, was found ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The latest attempt by former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters to secure release from a state prison fizzled out in federal court Monday. Chief Magistrate Judge ...