Drones are an escalating security threat to prisons, officials tell ABC News. Two years ago, some health care professionals across the country began to receive calls from individuals they believed ...

In the days since a congressional budget impasse caused a federal government shutdown, public attention has largely focused on high-profile impacts like employee furloughs, air travel delays and ...

Pennsylvania officials are closing two state prison facilities to save an estimated $100 million. The closures are attributed to a shrinking inmate population and the high cost of facility upgrades.

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado’s prisons are so full that the Department of Corrections for the first time has triggered a legislatively mandated process designed to speed up the ...

The move follows Maxwell's two-day meeting with Deputy AG Todd Blanche. The Bureau of Prisons has moved former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell from a federal prison in Florida to a federal ...

Prisons prioritize security over comfort. But concrete walls, steel doors, sealed windows, limited ventilation, lack of tree cover and outdated infrastructure converge to create dangerously hot ...

Several states, including California, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, are shuttering prisons as inmate populations decline and budgets tighten. The reprieve means that roughly 90 staff members won’t have ...

Lefty mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani once questioned the “purpose” of jails and prisons — setting off alarm bells among law enforcement officers who blasted the comments as “out of touch” and ...

For more than 40 years, the United States—a nation that putatively cherishes freedom—has had one of the largest prison systems in the world. Mass incarceration has been so persistent and pervasive ...

A former federal inmate who was pardoned by President Donald Trump in his first term for drug trafficking crimes more than two decades ago has been tapped as deputy director of the federal Bureau of ...

Private prisons emerged in the mid-1980s. Their first contracts were in immigration detention, a space they continue to dominate today. But soon after, they broke into the much larger correctional ...