Once billed as rehabilitative alternatives to prisons, these facilities are the sites of fatal overdoses—like that which ...

Guatemalan security forces moved Sunday to reassert control over a maximum security prison after inmate riots, as authorities ...

In twin moves attacking transgender detainees and prisoners, new guidance from the Trump administration strips away ...

A South Texas doctor who once prescribed unnecessary chemotherapy to thousands of patients is now on track to leave federal prison as soon as Sept. 2. The projected early release is reopening painful ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Cuban immigrant died in a Texas immigration detention facility earlier this month during an altercation ...

A Texas man who decapitated his wife just four months after their impromptu wedding was found dead by hanging in his prison ...

A man convicted of decapitating his wife has been found dead from a hanging in his Houston County prison cell.

In 2024, the 22-year-old suspect was convicted of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens. Now he is on the run; and officials ...

Waldemar Perez, 49, "developed a business" of accepting bribes for smuggled goods while working at the Federal Correctional ...

Four inmates have died in less than a week at Washington State Prison near Davisboro, The Union-Recorder has learned.

A man who was serving a 40 year sentence for the decapitation murder of his wife in Waller County was found dead from a ...