A Florida man’s complex jurisdictional appeal forced the justices to wrestle with whether Congress could strip the high court ...

A federal inmate died of treatable colon cancer after waiting six months for an urgent colonoscopy. Medical neglect like this ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday they will seek the death penalty for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City. U.S. Attorney ...

The federal inmate charged in December with stabbing former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in an Arizona prison can represent himself in court after a judge agreed to a request to waive his ...

From Magistrate Judge Steve Kim's opinion in Perez v. Engleman (C.D. Cal.), decided two months ago but just recently affirmed by District Judge George Wu: Petitioner Jonatan Perez is a federal inmate ...

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 ...

A federal prison inmate who was able to obtain a firearm at a prison camp in Arizona pulled out the gun in a visitation area and attempted to shoot a visitor in the head, The Associated Press has ...

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

The former warden of an abuse-plagued federal women's prison known as the "rape club" went on trial Monday, accused of molesting inmates and forcing them to pose naked in their cells. Ray J. Garcia, ...

A federal inmate released from a Louisiana prison last week is back behind bars after prosecutors in New York say police caught him running a black market gun trade through a phone smuggled into his ...