The federal Bureau of Prisons is shutting down its Terminal Island facility near Los Angeles over concerns about crumbling ...

After years of struggling to find enough workers for some of the nation’s toughest lockups, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a new challenge: Corrections officers are jumping ship for more ...

Sean "Diddy" Combs' family is defending the jailed mogul following a report about his prison behavior that they claim is "completely false." "The rumors claiming Mr. Combs was caught with alcohol are ...

Within days of her arrival at a Texas prison camp in early August, Ghislaine Maxwell gushed in emails to her friends and family over the cleanliness and safety of her new surroundings. “The ...

A federal judge will allow former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano to attend his resentencing virtually following a plea by his attorney to not disturb the rehabilitation of the disgraced ...

At a for-profit immigrant prison in Colorado, prisoners say they were threatened with solitary confinement if they refused to work as unpaid janitors, cleaning common areas of the facility for free.

The gap between the richest and poorest Americans is widening in what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has called a “bifurcated economy,” as the cost of living skyrockets from housing to food ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Federal officials have formally requested that former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters be transferred to federal custody, the latest in a monthslong effort ...

A Real Housewives star is set to be released from a famous Texas prison after serving just almost three years of her six-and-a-half year sentence for her role in a nationwide telemarketing fraud ...

A spokesman for the fallen music mogul, who is serving a four-year sentence for prostitution-related offenses at the Fort Dix prison complex in New Jersey, said he has been accepted to the program. By ...

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