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Senators allege Bureau of Prisons officials turned a blind eye to rapidly deteriorating conditions at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta.

The federal prison system is plagued by corruption and civil rights abuses.

The outgoing director of the Bureau of Prisons has been subpoenaed to testify before a Senate committee examining abuse and corruption in the beleaguered federal agency

DENVER — A man described in court documents as being in “middle management” of a drug cartel this week sued the U.S. Justice Department, claiming his imprisonment in Colorado’s Supermax prison is a sham, a “torturous” attempt to make him talk about drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and a…

Derek Chauvin was sentenced on Thursday to 21 years in federal prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights

Abortion access in prisons was already ‘abysmal.’ The end of Roe v Wade made things even worse, Josh Marcus reports

The settlement with the Justice Department includes $98,000 to be split among the six men who filed the lawsuit.

NEW YORK — R. Kelly was taken off of suicide watch Tuesday after the convicted R&B singer complained that officials at Brooklyn’s federal jail placed him in isolation for no reason.

The Justice Department has settled a long-running lawsuit filed by a group of men rounded up in the weeks after the September 2001 attack who say they were abused in a federal lockup in New York City