This weekend, lawmakers got their first look inside “Alligator Alcatraz,” the makeshift immigration detention center in the ...

The Old Jail Museum sits in the heart of Jim Thorpe, a town once known as Mauch Chunk, nestled in the picturesque Lehigh Gorge. The contrast is immediate and jarring – outside, a charming Victorian ...

A new federal court filing says Kilmar Abrego Garcia experienced "severe beatings" and "psychological torture" in a supermax prison in El Salvador.

Three more of the 10 inmates who busted out of a New Orleans facility in a high-profile jailbreak were recaptured in two different states, authorities said on May 26. Lenton Vanburen, Leo Tate ...

‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ America's newest prison built to detain undocumented migrants, is in the middle of the alligator-infested Florida Everglades.

A self-styled mystic Vissarion and two aides were sentenced to prison for using psychological pressure to extract money and harm followers in Siberia.

Judge faces backlash for sentencing an admitted rapist to probation The 20-year-old defendant pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting four teenage women, and the judge called prison time ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered decades in prison for two men involved the deaths of 53 migrants in San Antonio in 2022, calling the case "the most horrific offense" he's ever seen as a jurist.

DOC updates Stillwater prison closing Commissioner Paul Schnell says inmate transfers to other facilities have already begun, while decisions on what programs remain at Stillwater are being made.

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump is seeking to cancel $500 million for a planned federal prison on a former mine in Eastern Kentucky.