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 ...

Less than a week after his arrival at the Taylor Street Center, Melvin Balauan was dead. His body was found just a block away ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 will be released from federal prison on Wednesday after being ...

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

ALEXANDRIA, La. – Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Roy Everett Jordan, Jr., 57, of ...