James Edward Smith asked for a lump of dirt, but his request was denied. He settled for a cup of yogurt instead.

The government manufactures deportation outcomes by shackling detainees for lengthy periods of time in painful positions, ...

Opinion: Georgetown Law's Vida Johnson and Amanda Rogers say the Bureau of Prisons' personnel shortage, combined with recent ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas’ death row, has died ...

The world stood still on Monday, May 29, 2023, when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) made the now-famous “Subsidy is gone” declaration at Eagle Square, Abuja, in his first address to the nation upon ...

According to historical accounts, out of the 36 Alcatraz inmates who tried to flee before the prison was closed in March 1963 ...

The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, said, on Thursday, that the Federal Government freed over 4,000 inmates in the correctional facilities, as part of decongestion efforts ...

The sheriff's office's contract with the U.S. Marshals Service to detain federal prisoners makes up a larger portion of the budget ‒ $8.6 million, or 32% of the operating budget, in 2021.

Get CBS19 news on-demand by downloading the free CBS19+ app available on ROKU, Amazon Fire and Apple TV! Maddow Blog | Trump-appointed prosecutor pursues one of the president’s longtime targets ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has issued an order stopping the execution of Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman, which was scheduled to take place on March 18. Attorney General Liz ...

Federal Appeals Court Reverses Texas Death Row Inmate’s Conviction A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

Four sheriff’s deputies at Men’s Central Jail were attacked Sunday by a group of inmates armed with a shank, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials and two sources ...