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 restraint chair for five hours. The Department of ...

The Department of Justice is seeking the death penalty for an inmate charged with killing another prisoner at a federal penitentiary. Acting U.S. Attorney J. Bishop Grewell for the District of Colorado filed, with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ...

People who go to prison keep one important right — to file a grievance over their treatment: from abuse to denied medical care. But in the vast majority of cases, those efforts go nowhere, according to an analysis of federal data by The Marshall Project and NPR.

A former federal inmate who was pardoned by President Donald Trump in his first term for drug trafficking crimes more than two decades ago has been tapped as deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, according to bureau spokesperson Kristie Breshears.

The government had argued that a “pendulum swing” in the medical consensus justified treating trans inmates with psychotherapy and antidepressants instead.

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases and prove their claims of innocence. The inmates, Shannon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An inmate in a federal Florida prison was killed after being attacked by another inmate. Prison employees saw Steven Hernandez, 38, be assaulted Jan. 23 by another inmate at FCI Marianna ...