The Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, is in one of the most well-known federal prisons in the United States, where he will ...

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal ...

WASHINGTON -- Widespread sexual abuse of female inmates continues to plague federal prisons and accountability measures for staff have not contained the scourge of such violence, according to a Senate ...

Federal inmates are in prison institutions for too long under laws meant to see them released sooner. The Bureau of Prisons has nobody to blame for these failures other than themselves. A tenant of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has had a year of ...

The report points to systemic problems in the way federal prisons treat women. A government watchdog agency is pointing to systemic problems in the way federal prisons treat the women in their custody ...

A federal judge has denied a legal attempt, for now, to prevent the U.S. government from transferring former death row ...

A former nursing home mogul from Rockland County started an Arkansas prison sentence after a presidential pardon in another ...

The Dyer County Sheriff's Office announced Monday that a former correctional officer has been sentenced to 10 years in ...

The lawsuit argues that prison officials failed to address known safety risks that preceded a deadly attack and continue to ...