Fremont County, Colorado, has been dubbed the "Prison Valley" and is home to 15 high-security prisons. Seven of those prisons are located within the city limits of Canon City, Colorado.

An inmate at U.S. Penitentiary, Florence in southern Colorado died early Monday morning, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Theodore Clifton Matthews, 43, was found unresponsive at the ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced its intent to seek the maximum penalty against 56-year-old Ishmael Petty should its prosecutors succeed in convicting him of murdering a second fellow inmate.

(Reuters) - Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Mexican found guilty in a U.S. court on Tuesday of running a criminal enterprise that smuggled drugs into the United States, is likely headed to a "supermax" ...