The president wants to turn the notorious island back into a prison after more than five decades as a museum and national ...

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 ...

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 ...

Democratic leadership said Trump's idea to revive Alcatraz is based more on "decades-old, fictional Hollywood movies" than on real research ...

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.

As the Supreme Court delivers decisions that will irrevocably alter our democracy, independent journalism is more vital than ...

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

Bryan Kohberger, who admitted to the killings of four University of Idaho students, could be serve his sentence at a prison ...

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

A minimum-security federal prison camp near Duluth will remain open and operational following the reversal of a decision to ...