The decision to close the facility, at least temporarily, “is not easy, but is absolutely necessary,” Director William K.

Advocates say we're the only state without a law requiring release of dying inmates in some circumstances, and will press the ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is shutting down its Terminal Island facility near Los Angeles over concerns about crumbling ...

Document and be quiet,” one of the agents — who was holding a can of what appeared to be bear spray — told a person at the ...

Venture into Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs, and you’re likely to find Amy Johnson and Tim Palmer tending to rows of plants ...

Former Dublin federal prison guard Lawrence Gacad will not be trading places with the people he once supervised. Instead, the ex-correctional officer at the now-shuttered Federal Correctional ...

A federal judge granted an order separating transgender inmates from female detainees at a Texas correctional facility for ...

Around 20 women claim deputies rounded them up and filmed brutal strip searches in the San Francisco County Jail ...

Female ex-political prisoners from a Belarusian penal colony describe freezing cells, rotten food, psychological abuse, and ...

Under the temporary restraining order, prison officials are barred from allowing male inmates to enter or remain in ...

Outside the County Jail, a coalition of community leaders gathered to push for an investigation into allegations that 19 women were strip-searched in front of male deputies, who had their body cameras ...