California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is dismissing renewed efforts to reopen Alcatraz Island as a federal prison after U.S.

The nominee for a lifetime federal judgeship has demonstrated a total disregard for the high ethical standards to which most ...

Donald Trump’s bonkers scheme to return Alcatraz Island to its inglorious past as one of the nation’s most feared prisons ...

Ovidio Guzman Lopez stood in a Chicago courtroom last week and pledged to take a plea deal from federal prosecutors.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz as part of the plan to potentially reopen the ...

President's Trump's audacious plan to convert Alcatraz back to a maximum- security prison could come with a hefty price tag: ...

Virginia’s top investigatory body is turning its attention to Red Onion State Prison after alarming reports of self-harm and poor conditions at the supermax facility in Wise County.

The bill was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter, who subsequently executed the law by standing up the new ...

A Trump judicial nominee told DOJ lawyers to ignore court orders to return planes carrying alleged gang members, a whistleblower claims.

Minnesota lawmakers said the Federal Bureau of Prisons reversed a decision by the Biden administration that would have closed ...

Two federal officials traveled to California to visit the shuttered Alcatraz prison, part of a plan to soon announce the ...

In a fact-finding mission spurred by rumors of abuse at a Virginia supermax prison, a Richmond legislator toured the facility firsthand this week, renewing calls for oversight.