A judge has ruled that Tennessee prison officials must grant expanded access to media members to view state-run executions.

A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to hacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s filing system more than two dozen times ...

A former correctional officer who attempted to walk into the Dyer County Jail carrying a stockpile of high-grade narcotics in his waistband has been sentenced to a decade in federal prison. Tyrell ...

An inmate at Beaumont's federal prison was found unresponsive Monday and later died at a local hospital, prompting an investigation into the cause of his death. Desteryn Arnold, 36, was found at ...

Running water has returned to Sheridan Federal Correctional Institution after adults in custody spent much of the weekend without it. Scott Taylor, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons, the ...

A routine facility check at a county jail just east of Atlanta on Monday morning suddenly turned into a manhunt after officials discovered three men, all accused of violent crimes, had escaped the ...

WAYMART, Pa. — A 57-year-old man serving a life-sentence for murder was found dead Friday in federal prison in Wayne County. Robert James Turner's death at the United States Penitentiary in Canaan Twp ...

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A federal corrections officer from Camden County admitted to sexually assaulting an inmate while working at the federal prison in Philadelphia, federal prosecutors said. Michael Jefferson, 43, of ...

When a person incarcerated at the federal detention center in Philadelphia is placed on suicide watch, they are assigned to the “dry cells” in the special housing unit to be monitored by guards. It’s ...

A former correctional officer at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia has pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual abuse and related offenses following an attack last year that, officials said, ...