A federal jail with a documented history of power outages, staffing shortages and detainee complaints just got two more high-profile detainees.

A federal inmate had to have one of his or her limbs partially amputated after being kept in restraints for two days. Another incarcerated person died after being pepper sprayed and left shackled in a ...

WASHINGTON -- Widespread sexual abuse of female inmates continues to plague federal prisons and accountability measures for staff have not contained the scourge of such violence, according to a Senate ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday they will seek the death penalty for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City. U.S. Attorney ...

The Department of Justice is seeking the death penalty for an inmate charged with killing another prisoner at a federal penitentiary. Acting U.S. Attorney J. Bishop Grewell for the District of ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. — A federal prison inmate was sentenced to life in prison in connection with the murder of his cellmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Thomson, Illinois. Houston Clyde, 28, ...

A federal inmate who escaped jail in Georgia is expected to appear in a court in Broward County courtroom on Monday. He’s one ...

The report points to systemic problems in the way federal prisons treat women. A government watchdog agency is pointing to systemic problems in the way federal prisons treat the women in their custody ...