An 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 5:47 ...

SOLEDAD — California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating the Jan. 29 death of an ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — More female inmates joined a federal lawsuit to separate transgender inmates from female inmates at a Texas special needs women’s prison, lodging additional allegations of sexual ...

WAYMART, Pa. — A 57-year-old man serving a life-sentence for murder was found dead Friday in federal prison in Wayne County. Robert James Turner's death at the United States Penitentiary in Canaan Twp ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. – More drones are being detected flying over U.S. prisons than ever before, and federal regulations make it harder for state prisons to do anything about it. Advancements in drone ...

A 50-year-old state prison inmate in Yuma died Dec. 11 after he was apparently attacked by fellow inmates, state corrections officials say. The death of Leon Indian, who was in prison serving a ...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is taking further action to keep male inmates away from women’s prisons, but potential obstacles remain. “For years, officials have used ‘because PREA’ as ...

FLORENCE COLO. (KOAA) — An inmate died at the United States Penitentiary (USP) Florence after he was found unresponsive, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ says 57-year-old ...