In a case of fatal medical neglect that led a disgusted federal judge to hold the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in contempt, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General ...

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 Bureau of Federal Prisons truck drives past barbed wire fences at the Federal Medical Center prison in Fort Worth, Texas, May 16, 2020. automation Slightly more than half of all inmates who ...

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 ...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is being held in the troubled New York City jail that has housed high-profile defendants ...

Two former Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employees have been sentenced after an inmate's medical needs were ignored in a ...

WASHINGTON -- Widespread sexual abuse of female inmates continues to plague federal prisons and accountability measures for staff have not contained the scourge of such violence, according to a Senate ...

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 ...

The report points to systemic problems in the way federal prisons treat women. A government watchdog agency is pointing to systemic problems in the way federal prisons treat the women in their custody ...

Nicolas Maduro awaits trial at MDC Brooklyn, a notorious detention facility that has faced scandals involving power outages, ...