WASHINGTON — Taking up a case that could further erode the rights of people to sue federal officers for constitutional violations, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a prison ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three federal inmates at a Kentucky prison have been indicted in connection with an alleged assault involving a homemade stabbing weapon that federal investigators say may have been tied to the ...

The federal judge highlighted decisions from the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second and Eighth Circuits determining that inmates with knowledge of recordings undermines privilege given the Seventh ...

YOUNGSTOWN -- Mahoning County's contracts to house federal inmates from the United States Marshals Service, Federal Bureau of Prisons and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are now valid in the eyes ...

A Brooklyn federal correctional officer was indicted for allegedly accepting bribes to smuggle contraband into the ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — Nearly a year after Mauritzio Thornwall was stabbed to death inside a federal prison in Jefferson County, prosecutors have charged another incarcerated man with his murder.