Human rights groups warn that El Salvador's prisons are marked by overcrowding, lack of access to basic services and repeated ...

North Dakota state and corrections officials broke ground April 2 for a new women's prison in Mandan that aims to replace an aging facility south of Dickinson and address inmate ...

Thirteen women incarcerated at Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) filed a civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern ...

A new budget request would allow the Office of the Inspector General to monitor 350 of an estimated 2,400 staff sexual ...

The Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility is accused of having severe cases of black mold, and some say the public needs to be involved in this issue.

It’s been more than 150 years since anyone has given any serious thought on what to make of 15 acres of prime real estate ...

A Waupun prison inmate was airlifted to the hospital after jumping from a tier in the facility, the DOC said Tuesday.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WLUK) – Mauricio Powless, who sexually assaulted two girls and tried to assault a third at a hotel, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Powless, 19, previously pleaded ...

They met in prison, at the Bayview Correctional Facility in Manhattan, where in 2006, Mateo, an insouciant and streetwise 19-year-old, was serving a three- to nine-year sentence for assault.

In the suit, the city council accuses Adams of engaging in an illegal "quid pro quo" with the Trump administration by allowing ICE into the city prison in exchange for having the federal ...

OAKLAND — A mistrial was declared Monday in the trial of an FCI Dublin women’s prison guard accused of sexually preying on inmates at the now-shuttered facility, after jurors couldn’t agree ...

But two jury trials and three guilty pleas later, none of the nine Aryan Brotherhood members convicted of crimes that carry life sentences have spent a single day in federal prison. All of them ...