A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives would take on one of the biggest safety concerns in federal prisons.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has ...

A former Trousdale Turner correctional officer, prison chaplain, activist and incarcerated person weigh in on the causes of ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.

The Idaho Department of Corrections is taking steps to reconfigure a portion of the state's largest prison to prepare to ...

Akiyo was lodged in Tochigi Women's Prison, Japan's largest women's prison, located north of Tokyo. It houses nearly 500 ...

The cost of building a new jail in Scotland's biggest city has soared ten-fold to nearly £1billion as a result of the SNP 's ...

Shares of private prison companies have grown since the election. Those facilities could expand under Trump, despite claims ...

The Last Mile, a national nonprofit, is expanding its web development classes to prisons across the country, including in New England.

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

Trump this week agreed an "unprecedented, extraordinary migratory agreement" with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele to ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday praised an offer by El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele to jail American ...