Even though women are the fastest-growing segment of the prison population, no agency tracks vital statistics on pregnancy and reproductive care in state and federal prisons. The BJS release covered a ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would order the government to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once ...

Marsha Blackburn. A Justice Department report revealed 40% of surveyed prison employees experienced inmate sexual harassment. The U.S. Senate has passed legislation introduced by Sen. Jon Ossoff ...

One of six New York state prison guards indicted on murder charges in connection with the beating death of an inmate has pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. Christopher Walrath ...

I have just one thing to say about President Trump’s proposal to reopen Alcatraz as a prison for ruthless offenders. What took you so long? The “Rock,” as it has sometime been referred to ...

President Donald Trump said he has directed his administration to rebuild and reopen a “substantially enlarged version of the Alcatraz Prison, which was closed in 1963 after government officials ...

A Los Angeles judge resentenced Lyle and Erik Menendez to life with the possibility of parole, which could lead to their freedom after decades in prison. By Tim Arango Matt Stevens and Jacey ...

As a woman working in a men’s high-security prison, I was told not to care about the incarcerated population. But my job was to love. By Jenna Carson Wearing a protective vest, I stood on the ...