A 33-year-old federal inmate’s death by gunfire has exposed troubling questions about safety protocols and transparency within America’s prison system, leaving his devastated family searching for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. Prison is difficult but when an inmate is far from home it is ...

A federal judge has denied a legal attempt, for now, to prevent the U.S. government from transferring former death row ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — Dozens of people — family, friends, former teachers and neighbors — gathered outside the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood on Saturday to demand answers after the ...

Lackawanna County detectives charged a federal inmate with criminal homicide for the Sept. 9 fatal beating of a fellow federal inmate at the Lackawanna County Prison, District Attorney Brian Gallagher ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A federal inmate was found unresponsive at the United States Penitentiary Beaumont on Sunday afternoon and later died at a Southeast Texas hospital, according to prison officials.

(WXIN/WTTV) — A federal inmate being held in Indiana will spend an additional 25 years in prison after he was convicted of torturing and killing his cellmate in 2020. Mitchell Gibson, 40, was already ...

Another inmate at Tallahassee's federal prison has pleaded guilty to smuggling illegal drugs into the lockup, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Florida. In a Dec. 4 ...

South Dakota’s had a particularly challenging year. The state has logged eight suspected or confirmed overdose deaths in 2025 ...

The woman is also suing the federal government, claiming it never should have let a correctional officer alone with her.