With a federal immigration agreement now active, trained Hamilton County jail deputies can interrogate, detain and process ...

February, there were more than 68,000 immigrants in federal custody, according to ICE data. A Mexican national died in a ...

An inmate who escaped from the Crockett County Jail on March 25 is back in custody and faces additional state and federal charges.

Surveillance video shows inmates at the MDC Brooklyn federal jail stacking carts and chairs and using a 50‑foot rope in a ...

Guthrie, 84, was last seen on Jan. 31. She had dinner with her family, then headed home, where federal and local authorities ...

Attorneys for Texas prisoners say the conditions expose inmates and staff to dangerously high temperatures and have caused ...

For destroying video footage of a prisoner’s fatal stabbing, the Georgia Department of Corrections has been sanctioned by a federal judge in an associated lawsuit against the officer blamed for ...

Inmates in Texas prisons want a federal court to force the state to provide air-conditioning for all its prison cells.

The Justice Department says it will investigate allegations that Maine has allowed a transgender inmate to remain housed with women despite complaints that the inmate has assaulted or harassed other ...

Inmates in the federal jail tried to climb a gymnasium wall in a clumsy attempt to pull a rope packed with contraband through ...

Immigrants with legal, but not permanent, status are being detained more than ever before. To get them out, attorneys have to take their cases to federal courts.

Some employees at a Texas federal prison that holds high-profile women including Ghislaine Maxwell said they faced ...