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But they’ll be an entirely separate population from the prison, overseen by a different agency. The soon-to-open Harbor ...

A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Thursday over the death of Joshua Botwinski, 43, at Waupun Correctional Institution ...

Roughly 80 men in ICE custody are currently being held in the federal prison at Leavenworth. Advocates say conditions there ...

Nearly a decade ago, New Orleans officials hailed their new jail as a harbinger of change.

The ACLU is claiming that a federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, is breaking the law and violating the rights of ICE ...

The recent escapes follow several other high-profile breakouts, like that of Danilo Cavalcante, a convicted murderer who ...

He had not been outside the prison in some time, Bolton said. Condemned inmates are allowed out of their cells only to shower and to recreate in outdoor cages or a small internal day room for an ...

Jails in Cleveland and other cities don’t provide direct access to sunlight and fresh air – even when their own policies ...

The House and Senate approved a pair of bills to purchase the state's last private prison outright for $312 million.

Carolina Miranda, a former columnist for the LA Times, wrote in the Washington Post an op-ed likening El Salvador's infamous ...

A nearly three-minute video, posted online May 14, shows a bloodied inmate being chased and beaten by two others swinging ...