Alcatraz, a 22-acre islet with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco skyline, was once the crown jewel of the federal prison system and home to some of the nation’s most ...

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 ...

WELL, TOM, A SOURCE TELLS NEWS NINE INVESTIGATES. THERE ARE ABOUT 250 IMMIGRATION DETAINEES CURRENTLY BEING HELD AT THAT FEDERAL PRISON IN BERLIN. THE FACILITY’S OFFICIAL WEBSITE SAYS THERE ARE ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A former federal correctional officer from Memphis will return to federal prison, this time as a prisoner. A judge sentenced 32-year-old Bryan Miller to 12 months and one day in ...

THOMSON, Ill. (KWQC/Gray News) - Seventeen officers were exposed to an “unknown substance” in the mail room at a federal prison in Thomson, Illinois, on Wednesday. According to Jon Zumkehr, president ...

THOMSON, Ill. (KWQC/Gray News) - Seventeen officers were exposed to an “unknown substance” in the mail room at a federal prison in Thomson, Illinois, on Wednesday. According to Jon Zumkehr ...

A Dominican man serving a 10-year term for drug smuggling died early Wednesday at Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Dix after staffers found him unresponsive, the prison said in a statement.

But two jury trials and three guilty pleas later, none of the nine Aryan Brotherhood members convicted of crimes that carry life sentences have spent a single day in federal prison. All of them ...

Federal Bureau of Prisons employees face the loss of pay incentives and union representation. Prison employees express concerns about morale, recruitment, and safety due to potential budget cuts ...

A 28-year-old man being held at the Federal Correctional Institution in Leavenworth died Saturday evening after being found unresponsive in his cell. Denix Heredia-Chang, who was in pretrial ...