Former President Joe Biden commutes sentences of hundreds of people convicted of federal nonviolent drug offenses in North ...

Crack-era sentencing led to large number of people who wouldn't be in prison by today's rules. Biden gave clemency to many ...

On Thursday, the estate of Joshua Botwinski filed a five-page complaint against WCI warden Randall Hepp and WCI Security Director Yana Pusich.

Incarcerated students accepted their diplomas from Augustana College at a commencement inside East Moline Correctional Center ...

Most federal prisoners at average risk of colorectal cancer aren't screened annually, and treatment often lagged, a watchdog ...

Two prison corporations and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have moved quickly to prepare facilities to hold immigrants in virtually every region of the country. The move followed President Donald ...

PRINCE GEORGE – Authorities at the Federal Correctional Institution Petersburg say an inmate from Arizona died in his cell Tuesday afternoon. According to a statement from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, ...

Meanwhile, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Alcatraz, the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, has sat idle for more than a year after the Bureau of Prisons cleared it of ...

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged ...