Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Incarcerated people exercise in the maximum security yard of the Lansing Correctional Facility in April 2023 in Lansing, Kan. This ...

A growing number of state prison systems will soon require guards to wear body cameras or are considering laws that would put such requirements in place. Prison systems hope the body cameras will help ...

A U.S. appeals court on Friday declined to block President Donald Trump's administration from transferring 18 transgender ...

Immigration experts in the United States and Latin America and groups that track Venezuelan prisons said Venezuela has no known policy or practice of sending prisoners to the U.S., and Venezuelan ...

In early April, amid mounting U.S. pressure, the Cuban government announced that it was releasing over 2,000 prisoners in ...

Prisons prioritize security over comfort. But concrete walls, steel doors, sealed windows, limited ventilation, lack of tree cover and outdated infrastructure converge to create dangerously hot ...

From high-security facilities to infamous death row prisons, these are the 25 Most Dangerous Prisons in the World. Brace yourself for a tour of some of the most feared and brutal correctional ...

Locked in a segregation cell at a county jail in Oklahoma, Terral Ellis Jr. begged for his inhaler, his voice raspy and desperate. “I think I’m dying,” the 26-year-old father pleaded through the door.

Rapper Pooh Shiesty, who was serving a more than five-year prison sentence for a Florida gun charge, has been released from federal prison custody, records show. The 25-year-old rapper, whose legal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year, several states have taken steps to install air conditioning and expand cooling measures to address sweltering heat ...