Julie Grier-Villatte wants to help the children of people jailed by El Salvador’s government. It is a humanitarian crisis ...

The head of West Virginia’s state corrections system, long plagued by overcrowding and inmate deaths, has been tapped to lead ...

Ex-FDNY Chief Gets Nearly 2 Years in Federal Prison for Accepting Bribes NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City Fire Department chief was sentenced to nearly two years in federal prison Monday ...

Trump’s order signed March 28 authorized US Bureau of Prisons acting director William Lothrop “to immediately release” the federal inmate, who had been serving a 14-year sentence at a ...

A prison guard who had a relationship with one of London's most notorious killers, the teen who stabbed 15-year-old Elianne Andam to death and a paedophile who mocked his victim's families are among ...

After years of controversy about the temperatures inside Texas prisons, a federal judge has ruled the sweltering conditions in some facilities as unconstitutional. At least 4 deaths reported after ...

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (WNCT) — An inmate at the Pasquotank Correctional Institution (PCI) received the death penalty Thursday for his role in the 2017 deaths of four prison employees. On Mar. 27 ...

have been filed this session that would require state prisons to be equipped with air conditioning, but none of the bills have received a hearing yet. “This is a federal judge saying Texas is ...

An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison cells is likely violating inmates’ constitutional rights, but he declined to order the state's prison system ...

Meanwhile, Ibarra's older brother, 29-year-old Diego Ibarra — who has ties to the Venezuelan gang TdA — was sentenced to serve four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to presenting ...

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional," but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, which could ...