The Old Joliet Prison was open for nearly 150 years and has been closed for more than 20. A section of the prison that has ...

Officials here celebrated the 25th anniversary of the opening of the installation’s award-winning aquatic park known as ...

For the St. Juliana family, developing a memorial garden in honor of their daughter and sister, Hana St. Juliana, became a ...

Baseball, the sport many men at San Quentin started playing as innocent kids on playgrounds, now takes on a deeper meaning as ...

The budget also aims to address those staffing shortages, approving $500 million to keep National Guard troops stationed as temporary prison guards. The budget also created a temporary hiring ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is set to lower the minimum hiring age for prison guards from 21 to 18, seeking to boost the ranks of corrections officers during a shortage that was exacerbated by ...

and open Alcatraz!” — adding that he has directed the DOJ, FBI, Homeland Security and the Bureau of Prisons to “reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt” prison on San Francisco’s ...

A spokesperson for the National Park Service said the agency has no comment and that Trump’s statement “speaks for itself.” In a statement to SFGATE, the prison’s bureau said authorities ...

Sponsor Message "REBUILD, AND OPEN ... The prison's staff lived on the island with their families, and children were ferried to San Francisco on school days, according to the National Park Service.

Also known as ‘The Rock’, the iconic former prison brings in over 1.6 million tourists each year, generating about $60 million in annual revenue for park partners, according to the US ...

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — Ten New York prison guards were charged Wednesday in connection with the fatal beating of a 22-year-old inmate last month — including two charged with murder. It’s the ...