Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited Alcatraz on Thursday, where they are expected to announce plans to reopen the dilapidated California state prison that closed ...

ICE detention standards are difficult to enforce because they aren’t written into law. Rather than follow a uniform standard, ...

The ambient threat of torture is a form of social control, encouraging everyone else to comply with and bow down before the ...

“In most respects, ICE facilities operate with less consistent oversight and legal accountability than state or federal ...

Farmer v. Brennan is one of the most cited Supreme Court cases of all time. Few people know just how revolutionary Dee Farmer ...

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner ...

According to plea agreements, on December 6, 2021, a violent altercation occurred inside a cell at ADX involving Guillory and the victim. During the confrontation, Guillory repeatedly stabbed the ...

Kevin Carter's mother had no indication that his cellmate at the Nebraska State Penitentiary would beat and strangle Kevin. His death was not the first, nor would it be the last, that occurred after ...

Housing immigrant detainees in federal prisons, she said, is "profoundly disturbing." "People who are in civil immigration proceedings have due-process rights," Cho said.

The Honolulu Federal Detention Center could be back on the table to replace the deteriorating and overpopulated Oʻahu Community Correctional Center. HPR’s Ashley Mizuo reports that Gov. Josh Green has ...

Freedom Reads, a Connecticut-based nonprofit, delivers bookcases full of new books to prisons across the country. Nearly 50 prisons across the country now have bookcases.