In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court on Friday decided in Bowe v. United States two complicated questions concerning federal ...

Where food comes from in the U.S. is always a controversial topic. Many consumers don't know how much prison labor supports ...

A federal inmate had to have one of his or her limbs partially amputated after being kept in restraints for two days. Another incarcerated person died after being pepper sprayed and left shackled in a ...

WASHINGTON -- Widespread sexual abuse of female inmates continues to plague federal prisons and accountability measures for staff have not contained the scourge of such violence, according to a Senate ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday they will seek the death penalty for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City. U.S. Attorney ...

Is Al Sharpton in jail or was he arrested? Here's what's going on as Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro is held at MDC ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. — A federal prison inmate was sentenced to life in prison in connection with the murder of his cellmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Thomson, Illinois. Houston Clyde, 28, ...

On Tuesday, a former correctional officer at a federal prison in Bastrop pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for ...

An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Yazoo City Medium in Yazoo City died after being found unresponsive. ...