El Salvador's mega-prison built to house up to 40,000 inmates is referred to as CECOT, meaning the Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism. Miguel Sarre, former member of the United Nations ...

TUCSON, AZ — A civilian kitchen worker is suing the State of Arizona after she was violently sexually assaulted inside the Tucson prison by a high-risk inmate who was left unsupervised.

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its new prison policy that would require transgender inmates to be housed based on their biological sex ...

In El Salvador, the ‘worst prison on Earth’ could potentially be seeing US citizens as inmates. The place is referred to as CECOT, meaning the Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism ...

By Ed Shanahan An autopsy has found that the death of a New York State prison inmate who was handcuffed and shackled while corrections officers attacked him was a homicide, Gov. Kathy Hochul said ...

A judge has sentenced a federal inmate to 51 months in prison for assaulting a corrections officer, U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Special Agent in Charge Carlton Peeples announced Wednesday.

Justice Department attorney John Robinson said prison officials have “broad discretion” to decide where to place inmates. Moving the women to a men's prison would jeopardize their safety and ...

A former state prison employee has been sentenced to 90 days in prison after pleading guilty to sexual contact with an inmate. The 36-year-old woman, a former employee of the Mike Durfee State ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

That order was limited to one transgender woman in a woman’s prison. Trump’s order requires the federal Bureau of Prisons to ensure that “males are not detained in women’s prisons.” It also requires ...

Inmate Tam Le, 53, was found unresponsive in his cell on Tuesday, according to Joseph Terra, superintendent of SCI-Phoenix. Prison staff and medical personnel immediately responded and provided ...

According to Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe, two men were fighting with a slop bucket. One of the men ended up with puncture wounds to his head, Munroe said. This is the second stabbing at ...