The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

Two prison corporations and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have moved quickly to prepare facilities to hold immigrants in ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on ...

Washington’s now-abandoned McNeil Island Corrections Center was a federal penitentiary for over 100 years. Could the federal government reopen it?

Donald Trump wants to re-open notorious 'escape-proof' jail for 'most ruthless and violent prisoners' in the US ...

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning ...

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a ...

Alcatraz is where the government sent notorious gangsters Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly as well as lesser-known ...

Scottish prisons have one of the highest mortality rates in Europe as the number of people dying rises 60 percent in a year to 64, according to a report. The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice ...

12/06/2024 Brief of respondents United States, et al. in opposition filed. 12/20/2024 Reply of petitioners Curtrina Martin, et al. filed. (Distributed) 12/24/2024 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The man who has led South Carolina prisons for more than a decade was named as the top federal prosecutor for the state on Monday. Bryan Stirling took the oath of office in ...

Hyderabad: Telangana prisons department has taken up a comprehensive security audit across all prisons in the State. The exercise is being carried out for the first time in the country ...