The agency pointed to crumbling infrastructure, chronic staffing shortages and budget shortfalls as it moved to cut costs. By Chris Cameron Reporting from Washington The Federal Bureau of Prisons said ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced Wednesday that it will ...

California prisons are limiting access to programs for incarcerated people as the system manages it overtime budget. The state spends about $18 billion a year on corrections. The California Department ...

AGE FROM 14 TO 61 YEARS OLD. NEW. TONIGHT, THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS SAYS IT PLANS TO BUILD THREE NEW PRISONS TO ACCOMMODATE A NEW STATE LAW. IT CREATES A POINT SYSTEM FOR HABITUAL OFFENDERS.

New directives from the Bureau of Prisons amount to government-mandated conversion therapy. The Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City. In February, the Trump Justice Department issued a ...

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PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a takeover of health care operations in Arizona's prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and ...

New tensions flared a day after a Kurdish-led militia agreed to hand over control of prisons holding some 8,000 Islamic State fighters to the Syrian government. By Christina Goldbaum Clashes erupted ...

Over the past year, journalists at The Marshall Project have persistently covered the many ways people are dying in prisons and jails across the United States. In our ongoing series, Dying Behind Bars ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. New York State's Bedford Hills Correctional facility, Illinois' Pontiac ...

Carrie Teegardin is a reporter and part of the investigative team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is a graduate of Duke University and has won numerous national journalism awards. Danny ...

This article originally appeared on Stateline. Summer heat is bearing down on U.S. prisons, where temperatures in uncooled cells can climb well into the triple digits. Facing growing pressure from ...