Inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn stacked a food cart and a chair to climb up to a window.

Inmates in the federal jail tried to climb a gymnasium wall in a clumsy attempt to pull a rope packed with contraband through ...

Surveillance video shows inmates at the MDC Brooklyn federal jail stacking carts and chairs and using a 50‑foot rope in a ...

The investigations are the latest moves by the Trump administration to force prisons to house transgender women with male ...

A study found heat contributed to 14 Texas inmate deaths annually; three nonprofits have sued over conditions.

Inmates in Texas prisons want a federal court to force the state to provide air-conditioning for all its prison cells.

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal trial over air conditioning in Texas prisons began in Austin on Monday. An issue is whether or not ...

In a split decision, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that officials have immunity from claims they violated inmates' 8th Amendment rights.

Some employees at a federal prison in Bryan, Texas, which holds high-profile women including Ghislaine Maxwell, said they ...

US President Donald Trump asked Congress on Friday for $152 million to begin rebuilding the notorious Alcatraz prison, ...

A former West Virginia Correctional Officer at the Southern Regional Jail (SRJ) in Beaver, WV, pleaded guilty to Conspiracy ...

Utah death row inmates were told they were too late to challenge Utah's execution protocols. Now, the Utah Supreme Court is ...