The closures come even as Congress approved a major funding boost for the Bureau of Prisons with the One Big Beautiful Bill ...

A federal inmate had to have one of his or her limbs partially amputated after being kept in restraints for two days. Another incarcerated person died after being pepper sprayed and left shackled in a ...

The agency pointed to crumbling infrastructure, chronic staffing shortages and budget shortfalls as it moved to cut costs.

The Department of Justice is seeking the death penalty for an inmate charged with killing another prisoner at a federal penitentiary. Acting U.S. Attorney J. Bishop Grewell for the District of ...

The federal judge highlighted decisions from the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second and Eighth Circuits determining that inmates with knowledge of recordings undermines privilege given the Seventh ...

WASHINGTON — Taking up a case that could further erode the rights of people to sue federal officers for constitutional violations, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a prison inmat ...

Officials are investigating the death of 38-year-old inmate Joan Archie McNeill Jr. at a federal prison in Virginia.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An inmate in a federal Florida prison was killed after being attacked by another inmate. Prison employees saw Steven Hernandez, 38 ...

WASHINGTON — President Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before ...