The United States of America was hit with a federal tort lawsuit on Jan. 9 in California Northern District Court over alleged sexual assaults at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, ...

A homicide investigation is underway after a human bone was discovered in Victorville. On Jan. 26, a person who was walking their dog spotted the bone near Abbey Lane and Stoddard Wells Road around ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Several dozen Guatemalan prison guards were being held hostage by inmates in three prisons Saturday following apparently coordinated disturbances, authorities said. Interior ...

Two inmates in Southern Nevada prisons died this month, the Nevada Department of Corrections announced Wednesday. Eric Johnson, 30, died on Jan. 6 at Southern Desert Correctional Center in Indian ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

Immigration experts in the United States and Latin America and groups that track Venezuelan prisons said Venezuela has no known policy or practice of sending prisoners to the U.S., and Venezuelan ...

United Airlines has ferried another Boeing 777-200 widebody aircraft to Victorville. According to media reports and flight-tracking data, the aircraft is being stored rather than retired. The ...

Two inmates died at separate Central Pennsylvania county prisons within days of each other, officials announced on Monday, Jan. 5. A 53-year-old woman died after she was found unresponsive in her cell ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Several inmates suspected of making and distributing drugs at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center have been transferred to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, according to ...

The lawsuit seeks to hold the government accountable by establishing enforceable protections and ensuring that detention ...