DANBURY — Congress members are demanding an investigation into allegations that the federal prison in Danbury failed to follow COVID-19 isolation guidelines. U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and ...

DANBURY -- After an outcry arose over a plan to move more than 1,300 prisoners from the only women's federal lockup in the Northeast, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons now plans to return 400 women to ...

The following are some facts about the Danbury women's prison. ... Stewart could also be sent to the minimum security prison camp in Alderson, W.Va, which has more than 1,000 inmates.

On April 3, 2020, after passing of the CARES Act that sent trillions into an ailing economy stalled by the COVID-19 outbreak, Attorney General William Barr declared an emergency situation in ...

Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell have requested that she serve her 20-year sentence at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison in Connecticut that has housed a Real Housewife and a hip-hop ...

The federal prison for women in Danbury will convert back to a male prison starting next month when female inmates will begin to be transferred to federal prisons in Alabama and other parts of the ...

They said more than half the women at a federal prison in Danbury tested positive for COVID-19, but the prison didn’t immediately isolate them or tell them they had the virus.

Instead, many state prisons simply have stopped accepting transfers from county jails. The Danbury compound, one of 122 federal prisons, offers a prism into the bureau’s failure to contain the ...

DANBURY -- Situated high atop sloping fields, set back from Pembroke Road by a curving, tree-lined drive, the property offers the added privacy of a stand of pines that all but mask the barbed ...

The women at Danbury's Federal Correctional Institution have been anticipating Martha Stewart's arrival for months. "It was the talk of the prison," Joyce Ellwanger of Milwaukee, who served time ...

Washington – Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy are demanding answers from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons about its response to an outbreak of COVID-19 cases at the federal prison in Danbury ...

HARTFORD >> The partial government shutdown has delayed plans to begin moving inmates out of the federal women’s prison in Danbury as part of an effort to turn the facility into a minimum ...