Newsweek has investigated where the country's best and worst ranked prisons are located. The map shows how each U.S. state ranks in relation to the correction outcomes of its prisons. The data was ...

There has been a decision to move an inmate from a case that gathered national attention here in New York State to a jail in ...

In the House of Mirrors, political captives were pushed to the brink of insanity and death. Some are telling their stories ...

In 2023, the Federal Bureau of Prisons shut down a troubled unit at the prison in Illinois. The former warden is now the director of the federal center that does specialized training of prison staff.

Federal agents recovered nearly 1,000 pounds of uncontained explosives and explosive materials from the homes of the security ...

A Central New York man who worked as a pastor for decades has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for possession of child pornography. James H. Swanson, 59, of Rome, N.Y., was arrested ...

X/Kaurs of New York City Department of Corrections press secretary Annais Morales and DOC member Mariam Singh struggled with each other in a diva donnybrook that was finally stopped by two ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Mexico’s former public security chief sentenced to more than 38 years in US prison for taking bribes from drug cartel.

One of the men, from New Jersey, referred to lawmakers as “traitors” and encouraged other rioters to drag them out of the ...

Bureau of Prisons Says It's Adding Staff and Making Fixes at Jail Where Sean 'Diddy' Combs Is Held NEW YORK (AP) — The federal Bureau of Prisons says it has increased staffing in recent months ...

16, U.S. District Judge Brenda K. Sannes of the Northern District of New York confirmed the jury's verdict against state prison defendants in a civil rights lawsuit brought by inmate Wonder ...

The sheriff’s offices in Manatee, Lee, Pinellas and St. Johns counties said they have no plan to evacuate local jails. Other ...