But U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman's warnings to Texas to act after finding the conditions in the prison system unconstitutional could resonate elsewhere in the U.S. where similar challenges ...

NEW YORK — A judge on Wednesday ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer two transgender women inmates back to federal women’s prisons after they had been sent to men’s facilities ...

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The Department of Prisons has taken action against officials for irregularities, including financial transactions. A total of 12 officials were dismissed, six were sent on forced retirement and 84 ...

The Commissioner General of Prisons, Dr.Johnson Byabashaija has issued an announcement in which the prisons is seeking to recruit 402 warders and wadresses. In a statement on Monday, Prisons ...

Tennessee houses nearly 29% of its inmates in private prisons, ranking it among the top four states nationally. Since 2000, the number of Tennessee prisoners in private facilities has surged by 95 ...

Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times Supported by By Alexandra Berzon Allison McCann and Hamed Aleaziz Damon Hininger, the chief executive of CoreCivic, which operates private prisons and ...

A prison in California said a woman died of strangulation during an overnight visit in November 2024 with her husband, who was serving time for the murder of four people.

Privatization of prison food isn’t a new phenomenon, but it’s growing substantially. According to one market analysis, the industry was worth almost $3.2 billion in 2022 in the United States alone, ...

Faced with seven homicides in the first nine weeks of the year, California prison authorities announced they have restricted inmate movement and revoked privileges such as visits and phone calls ...