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 ...

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

California reached a $1.9 million settlement agreement with 13 female inmates who claim they were subjected to "war zone" ...

An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Edgefield County is now facing escape charges after he walked away ...

The D.A. said he is "doing everything I can" to hasten Jeremy Tremaine Williams' execution for Kamarie Holland's brutal death ...

California will pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit alleging corrections officers used excessive force, batons and chemical ...

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

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

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

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

A former corrections officer has been found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal beating of an inmate at Mid-State ...