America’s federal prison system is running a 20th-century operation against 21st-century threats. If Congress is serious about public safety, it must modernize the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Right now ...

The Trump administration is launching an investigation into trans women in women’s prisons in California and Maine — as a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom has led to horrific allegations of rape and ...

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The investigations are the latest moves by the Trump administration to force prisons to house transgender women with male inmates. By Jenna Russell The Department of Justice told the governors of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Department of Justice said it would investigate two state women’s facilities to determine ‘if those prisons ...

Lindsay Foreman was hunched over the landline in Ward 7 of Tehran’s Evin prison, telling her son Joe that the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign had started. Warplanes had been circling above the Iranian ...

The Philadelphia Department of Prisons has increased its correctional officer staffing by 27% since April 2024, marking a significant turnaround for a system that struggled with severe shortages ...

Former Iran detainee Siamak Namazi says he's worried about the handful of Americans known to be held inside Iranian prisons as the U.S. war in Iran continues. "They are the easiest-to-grab punching ...

A California correctional officer stands at a gate on the grounds of Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, Calif., in July 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday, March 26, 2026, that it ...

The Cuban government said Thursday it would release 2,010 prisoners in a move that comes while the Trump administration puts extreme pressure on the island's government with a suffocating oil blockade ...

In the years since disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead from what was ruled a suicide in his prison cell on August 10, 2019, conspiracy theories have abounded about whether the convicted ...

ST. LOUIS, Mich. (WJRT) - State and local officials are expressing concern over rising violence at the St. Louis Correctional Facility in Gratiot County, as it houses some of Michigan's most violent ...