President Trump's Justice Department opposed temporary restraining order, claiming female inmates didn't exhaust their ...

A federal judge granted an order separating transgender inmates from female detainees at a Texas correctional facility for ...

Fifty-four women and their families sued county jails alleging dangerous conditions behind bars. These are their stories.

Under the temporary restraining order, prison officials are barred from allowing male inmates to enter or remain in ...

Even felons and alleged murderers can get a taste of Thanksgiving while behind bars, including Luigi Mangione, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Noella Turnage was fired from her job at the prison last week. On Monday, she sat down with KBTX’s Rusty Surette ...

Supporters of incarcerated former Republican Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters are pushing to get her transferred from a state facility to a federal prison, arguing that it would be a safer environment as ...

An investigation into abuse and rape by guards in women's prisons throughout Idaho is turning up calls for reform to the ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is shutting down its Terminal Island facility near Los Angeles over concerns about crumbling ...

Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life ...

The decision to close the facility, at least temporarily, “is not easy, but is absolutely necessary,” Director William K.