The Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a relatively unknown 18th century law, was created in response to spying and sabotage during ...

During a daylong hearing in Albany, state lawmakers heard from family members of men who died in New York State prisons in ...

A federal judge on Monday stripped control of the Rikers Island jail complex from New York City and ordered the appointment ...

Despite an extensive manhunt, the three were never found, leaving behind America’s most enduring prison mystery. After 29 ...

Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

Each cell is 8 feet by 10 feet. And inmates spend 23 hours a day alone in that space. On weekdays, the men get one hour in a ...

Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again saying it's needed to house America's "most ruthless and violent" ...

Donald Trump wants to re-open notorious 'escape-proof' jail for 'most ruthless and violent prisoners' in the US ...

Buried deep in Colorado's Mountains lies America's most secure prison. ADX Florence is where the U.S. government buries its ...

Overcrowding in Arkansas prisons has plagued the state's justice system for years.The state is now trying to address the ...

JOLIET, Ill. — An Illinois landlord who killed a 6-year-old Muslim boy and severely injured the boy's mother in a brutal hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza began was sentenced Friday ...

He was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison, of which 10 were suspended. He remains incarcerated in Maryland, according to state records.