A former federal inmate at Pekin’s federal prison was indicted this week for allegedly beating another man to death in 2023 ...

President Donald Trump announced via Truth Social his intention to reopen Alcatraz Island as a maximum-security federal ...

President Trump directs reopening of Alcatraz to house most dangerous criminals. The place once known as 'The Rock' could ...

John Hanson, convicted of a 1999 Tulsa murder, faces execution following the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board's clemency ...

A judge at the US District Court in Rhode Island issued a preliminary injunction, putting a temporary hold on cuts to the agencies.

The Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Parole denied clemency in the case of John Hanson May 7, leaving him to face execution in ...

Federal prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City.

The penitentiary has over the years housed such infamous criminals as George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud, James Earl ...

Donald Trump made the “Gulf of America” so great again that he’s considering implementing a similar rebrand for another body ...

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

An Oklahoma board has denied clemency for a man convicted of killing a Tulsa woman in 1999. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole ...

Representative Laurel Lee emphasized bipartisan support for criminal justice reform through her Fresh Start Act and advocated for better oversight of federal prisons. In a Judiciary Subcommittee ...