A 33-year-old federal inmate’s death by gunfire has exposed troubling questions about safety protocols and transparency within America’s prison system, leaving his devastated family searching for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. Prison is difficult but when an inmate is far from home it is ...

Complaints of understaffing, ignored medical emergencies and other concerns at the Indian Creek Correctional Center state prison are included in a recent federal lawsuit seeking judicial oversight ...

A federal judge has denied a legal attempt, for now, to prevent the U.S. government from transferring former death row ...

Lackawanna County detectives charged a federal inmate with criminal homicide for the Sept. 9 fatal beating of a fellow federal inmate at the Lackawanna County Prison, District Attorney Brian Gallagher ...

When a person incarcerated at the federal detention center in Philadelphia is placed on suicide watch, they are assigned to ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A federal inmate was found unresponsive at the United States Penitentiary Beaumont on Sunday afternoon and later died at a Southeast Texas hospital, according to prison officials.

Former inmates and officials say synthetic drugs like K2, frequent lockdowns and limited addiction treatment fuel overdose ...

ATLANTA — An inmate at the federal prison in Atlanta is sentenced to additional time for headbutting a correctional officer. After 38-year-old Fabian Taylor, Jr. of Columbia Heights, Minnesota covered ...

(WXIN/WTTV) — A federal inmate being held in Indiana will spend an additional 25 years in prison after he was convicted of torturing and killing his cellmate in 2020. Mitchell Gibson, 40, was already ...

New York State’s Bedford Hills Correctional facility, Illinois’ Pontiac Correctional Center and Albion Correctional Facility in New York State are the three U.S. prisons with the highest reported ...