In the early weeks of the war, prison authorities told top guards there would be no restrictions against violence.

For a week in 1964, the jail was the epicenter of America's civil rights movement, as Martin Luther King Jr. and several ...

A 66-year-old Shelton, Washington, man was sentenced to 90 months in prison Friday for his role in a drug trafficking ring ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has ...

The U.S. cannot deport American citizens and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said from Costa Rica that "we have a Constitution ...

That is after meeting in San Salvador on Monday with Bukele, who confirmed the deportation offer in a post on X, saying El ...

A federal judge is expected to rule Tuesday on a request to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men’s facilities and terminating their access t ...

It is the third exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners since a ceasefire was agreed nearly a fortnight ago ...