Since mid-March, 11 federal prison inmates have died. They include David Knezevich, a 37-year-old Florida businessman who was found dead April 28 in a suspected suicide at a federal jail in Miami.

The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them. Skyrocketing repair and supply costs compelled the Justice Department to close the prison in 1963 ...

A guard tower and prison yard at the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., in 2009. There have been eight deaths at Thomson since 2019, making the facility one of the deadliest federal ...

60 Minutes went inside a federal women's prison where inmates had a message for the crisis-plagued Bureau of Prisons: "Fix it." Cecilia Vega reports.

60 Minutes went inside a federal women's prison where inmates had a message for the crisis-plagued Bureau of Prisons: "Fix it." Cecilia Vega reports.

All federal prisons in the United States have been placed on lockdown. Law enforcement agencies are taking measures in the aftermath of Jan. 6 insurrection and over concerns of more violence.

The concept of the original Alcatraz federal prison was partly idealistic, as it was meant to "to deal with the most incorrigible inmates in Federal prisons, and to show the law-abiding public ...

Since mid-March, 11 federal prison inmates have died. They include David Knezevich, a 37-year-old Florida businessman who was found dead April 28 in a suspected suicide at a federal jail in Miami.

The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them A visitor looks at the warden's house at Alcatraz Island on Monday, May 5, 2025, in San Francisco.