MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Federal records related to the investigation into the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King ...

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner ...

Meanwhile, about 30 miles east of Alcatraz, the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, has sat idle for more than a year after the Bureau of Prisons cleared it of inmates in the ...

A man who was convicted in connection with the murders of an 8-year-old murder trial witness and the boy’s mother in Bridgeport in 1999 was released from federal prison on Wednesday after being ...

Inside prison walls, here's how a book program is changing lives Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond books ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has been housing immigration detainees in jails and prisons following an interagency agreement in February. This month, more facilities are being added to the list.

A bill looking to change the nomination process for the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was introduced Thursday by ...

Three Milton men were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a drug trafficking operation in Santa Rosa County on ...

The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Virgin Islands announced on Tuesday that Kai James, 37, of St. Croix, has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for his role in a sprawling drug trafficking ...