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 ...

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.

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court on Friday decided in Bowe v. United States two complicated questions concerning federal ...

A 25-year-old inmate serving time for drug dealing in Puerto Rico died early Saturday at Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Dix, prison officials said in a statement. Jarette Morales was found ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. — A federal prison inmate was sentenced to life in prison in connection with the murder of his cellmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Thomson, Illinois. Houston Clyde, 28, ...

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

Another inmate at Tallahassee's federal prison has pleaded guilty to smuggling illegal drugs into the lockup, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Florida. In a Dec. 4 ...