A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement ...

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner was held in restraints so tight that he had to have a limb amputated.

“This inmate was able to grab the firearm and turn the first stage of the safety off,” he said. “With the shackles in place, that did not have to happen.” ...

Inmates at a Miami immigration detention centre were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to ...

Two Italian nationals living in the United States are among the inmates currently being held at the ICE detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, according to Italy’s foreign ministry ...

The third Passaic County Correctional Officer accused of helping assault an inmate in an area of the county jail without surveillance cameras pleaded guilty, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s ...

including the overuse of restraints and shackles so tight that prisoners report scarring and permanent injury. The OIG reviewed six years of BOP records and found thousands of instances of abuse.