West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with ...

Daniel Mitchell, 42, pleaded guilty Dec. 23 to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an inmate only referred to in court ...

The Trump administration is pulling funding from the Maine Department of Corrections over a transgender woman who is being ...

Theodore Clifton Matthews, 43, was found unresponsive in his cell around 2:15 a.m. Prison staff and emergency medical ...

A 43-year-old man serving a 17.5-year sentence for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise died in southern ...

Federal Bureau of Prisons employees have lost pay incentives and are now facing the prospect of losing union representation.

Another transgender inmate in Maine ... president's executive mandate to strip federal prisons of gender-transition treatments and housing preferences. In February, U.S. District Judge Royce ...

which houses federal prison inmates with long-term medical needs. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota, ...

Supporters of the union, which represents 30,000 prison employees, fear the move will worsen an ongoing staffing crisis.

The judge ruled Texas prison cell temperatures, which regularly exceed 90 and 100 degrees, likely violate rights against cruel and unusual punishment.

A U.S. Congressman has filed a bill to jam cell reception in prisons and police arrested teens for a string of burglaries.