When Illinois shuttered the century-old maximum security facility last year, nearly four of every five inmates went to less-secure sites.

Opened in the wake of the terror attacks on the US in 2001, Guantanamo Bay has held some of the most dangerous people ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

The men, who were seeking asylum in the U.S., accused the Bureau of Prisons of providing inedible meals and spoiled milk, ...

The first high-profile exchange took place on February 10, 1962, when Soviet intelligence officer William Fischer (better known as Rudolf Abel), arrested in New York on June 21, 1957, was exchanged ...

Alabama lawmakers are seeking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000-bed prison.

The Trump administration appears to be considering sending immigrants facing deportation to FCI Dublin, a former federal ...

The embattled Theranos founder, who is serving a federal prison sentence until 2032, is speaking out about her life after being convicted.

The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 ...