U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were spotted conducting an assessment at the shuttered facility both Thursday ...

Girls who are in state custody for committing crimes are being moved back to the Ware Youth Center, a privately-runfacility ...

Section four of the executive order, “Privacy in Intimate Spaces,” applies this understanding of sex to the housing of ...

Successful petitions to receive compassionate early release from federal prisons due to health issues are rare. They are even ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Ringgold’s painting was not. It was Barbara Drummond, a correctional officer and a former volunteer at the Schomburg Center ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Prison movies are perhaps the most captivating of all movies, as the following films illustrate. From grim portrayals of life ...

In a Candid, Exclusive Interview, the Former Theranos CEO and Convicted Felon, Shares Her Life Behind Bars and Quest for ...

A fence with barbed wire encircles the water tower across from the state women’s prison in Shakopee. A plain chain-link fence lines the Catholic cemetery. But five years after local ...