Executives at the private prison firm CoreCivic say they anticipate the Trump administration's policies will lead to "the ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

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When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

And then there’s the question of the prison’s history. “They do executions on site; they have for a good long time,” said Doug Farr, an architect who’s helping Michigan City with its plan.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender women currently housed in women’s facilities at federal prisons.

Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder. Another hundred are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet ...

Russia handed prison sentences on Friday to three lawyers who had defended opposition leader Alexei Navalny until his death in a Russian prison last year, capping a protracted legal saga that has ...

President Donald Trump’s stated plan to detain 30,000 migrants at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, brings a little-known history back ... documentary Forever Prison, a decade before ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele offers to house deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens, in the country’s maximum-security prison. Photo ...

A group in Syria sparked widespread outrage this week after painting the walls of a prison, sparking accusations of tampering with history and potential evidence of human rights violations against ...

On the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump reversed former President Joe Biden’s executive order on private prisons. Biden’s order had barred contracts between the Department of Justice ...