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A Sacramento County inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison is one of three facing attempted homicide charges in an attack on a ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration says it's recommending the closure of Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp amid longer-term national trends of shrinking prison populations.

The complex of the nearly shuttered prison is getting a quick renovation. Satellite images from Planet Labs show the construction of large-scale tents across the Guantanamo Bay camp. Satellite ...

Since 2002, roughly 780 detainees have been held at the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Fifteen are left. Former President George W. Bush created the prison camp to hold ...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender women currently housed in women’s facilities at federal prisons.

The Trump administration said the 10 men who were sent to a prison on the base at Guantánamo Bay are affiliated with gangs. By Hamed Aleaziz Eric Schmitt and Carol Rosenberg The Trump ...

Four staff were injured in an altercation with five inmates at Hawke's Bay Regional Prison on Sunday. Photo / Paul Taylor Three other staff were also injured after five prisoners at the facility ...

That area is separate from Guantanamo Bay's detention center, the post-9/11 military prison where the U.S. still holds more than a dozen terrorism suspects. A relatively small number of migrants ...

It wasn’t until she was signing the lease agreement that someone said, “Did you know this is an old prison?” Indeed, the development, now called Liberty, had a former life as the Lorton ...

A federal judge agreed Tuesday to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men’s facilities and terminating their access to hormone therapy ...