Las Vegas Valley residents continue to raise concerns over an expansion of a “maximum-security facility” for inmates with ...

Authorities say 10 men broke out of a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet. Seven of them are still on ...

Authorities say 10 men broke out of a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet. Eight of the escapees ...

As a trial looms for the man accused of killing the 19-year-old in a hate crime, Laureano's mother seeks answers — and ...

Alcatraz closed in 1963 because it was too costly to operate — three times more costly than any other federal prison. It's not coming back.

Two South Los Angeles residents were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of impeding the activities of federal immigration ...

Sitting on a couch in her home in Maracay, Venezuela, Mirelis Cacique López watches her son Francisco Javier García Cacique on her cell phone in the first video released of a group of Venezuelans sent ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has named the inmate who allegedly stabbed rapper Tory Lanez 14 times in custody.

A recent class action lawsuit from the MacArthur Justice Center sheds light on how extreme heat creates life-threatening ...

He has since been held in a maximum security prison, where he spent the first 33 days in solitary ... She said: “Ahmed has ...

The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

Solitary confinement. Administrative segregation. Restrictive housing. No matter what you call it, the American Civil Liberties Union says, the practice of keeping a person alone in a cell 23 hours a ...