On Feb. 7, several sanctuary cities, led by San Francisco and including Portland, New Haven, Santa Clara and Kings County, ...

The Prison Policy Initiative's report reveals how disciplinary systems in prisons around the US make those facilities less safe for everyone.

If shut down, inmates from the prisons would be transferred to the other 22 state prison facilities scattered across the ...

President Donald Trump's administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A line of white buses carrying Palestinian prisoners set to be released left Ofer prison in the West Bank.

The passage of this critical legislation would mean the basic human rights and dignity of prison employees would be better safeguarded, and Bureau of Prison employees would be better suited to perform ...

Lawmakers have proposed a package of legislation to reform state prisons after Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old Rochester incarerated man, died Dec. 10 after more than a dozen correction officers beat him ...

More than 200 people were in the custody of the federal Bureau of Prison system prior to Trump's pardon. By Tuesday morning, all of them had been released, officials told The Associated Press.

DENVER (KDVR) — A 56-year-old man was sentenced to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole for a shooting that left one dead and two others injured in 2020. According to the ...

There are about 1,500 federal prisoners who are transgender women, according to the Bureau of Prisons. But they represent an outsize portion of federal inmates, especially among female prisoners ...