Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado Department of Corrections officials forced inmates to work prison jobs through coercion that ultimately amounted to involuntary servitude, a Denver ...

Home Personal Finance A Wake-Up Call and a Healthy Dose of Terror: How to Survive Your First Days in Prison This young man needed to be scared straight after his mother expressed her fear that he was ...

Joseph Mendoza, 36, was stabbed nearly 180 times and died at the Salinas Valley State Prison. Someone on staff captured video of the stabbing and leaked it where it appeared on social media, according ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences to the nation’s highest security federal prison, warning that ...

Lawyers for the Venezuelan men who were sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador last year argued in court Monday that due process for their clients would mean giving them the immediate right to ...

After Ghislaine Maxwell’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said she should be transferred back to the maximum security prison in Florida ...

The prison expansion push is raising concerns among some advocates and attorneys — particularly given a push for spending cuts statewide.

An American flag is seen through the barbed wire surrounding the CoreCivic Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, California, on October 4, 2025. Two of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) ...

The House Oversight Committee released a video Monday of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell repeatedly invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when asked about her links ...

PINCKNEYVILLE, Ill. (WSIL) -- The Illinois Department of Corrections declined the request for an on-camera interview, but did provide an official statement of Sunday's incident adding: On February 9 ...

Three Alabama prison inmates featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary have filed a federal lawsuit alleging their abrupt transfer to isolated cells last month violated their First Amendment rights.

The family of a man who was stabbed to death in Salinas Valley State Prison has filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging negligence by the prison's guards, they said at a press conference held Wednesday ...