The Trump administration is planning to use more for-profit prisons to house ICE detainees — raising concerns about some well ...

A legal dispute over whether transgender people incarcerated in Indiana are entitled to receive gender-affirming surgery has ...

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands is just days away from being operational, federal ...

New York City on Tuesday closed the arrival center for migrants it had established at the Roosevelt Hotel, a once-grand Manhattan hotel that had become an emblem of the city's fraught efforts to ...

(AP) — A convicted murderer and former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks" pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge stemming from his recent escape from an Arkansas prison ... for every room ...

Three inmates of Native American ancestry are suing Rhode Island’s prison system, claiming their religious rights are being violated by not being allowed to par ...

The inmate told prison staff that around 4:30 p.m. on March 7, two other inmates came into his cell, tied him up, kicked and punched him and poked him with a knife, police said. The inmates told ...

A federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration ’s federal prison policy on transgender inmates, ruling that the restrictions against gender-affirming ...

More than 200 inmates escaped from a prison and at least one was killed in a shootout in Karachi, Pakistani, after they were moved out of their cells due to earthquake tremors, officials said.

Prison officials had taken around 2,000 inmates for counting during the earthquake evacuation at around 12:45 a.m. local time, Sindh Inspector General of Police Ghulam Nabi Memon told Pakistan's ...

Now, three inmates responsible for the fatal beating have now been sentenced to additional time in prison. The last of the three, 33-year-old Charles Porter, received 12 more years Friday.

DANNEMORA, N.Y. — Richard Matt was a convicted murderer who was part of the high-profile escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in June 2015. He, along with David Sweat, managed to pull off ...