Bryan Kohberger, who admitted to the killings of four University of Idaho students, could be serve his sentence at a prison ...

Overall, federal prisons are at 30% overcapacity according to a 2014 study conducted by the General Accountability Office.. However, when the GAO looked specifically at maximum security prisons, U ...

Juveniles currently housed at the country’s largest maximum-security adult prison in Louisiana will be moved to a youth detention facility by late fall, officials said Friday.

The prison, the state’s only maximum-security facility, houses 349 inmates, Fitzgerald said. A 12-member jury found Chauvin, 45, guilty of all three charges of second-degree murder, ...

The Hochul administration will close two upstate New York maximum security prisons citing a continuing overall drop in the incarcerated population, cost savings, staffing shortages and ...

The maximum security, or ‘Supermax,’ prison in Florence, Colo., where El Chapo will likely be sent. Photo: JASON CONNOLLY/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.

Walter Dickey, who once ran the Wisconsin state prison system, blames the surge in states building high-tech "Supermax" prisons. Dickey talks to host Jacki Lyden about his concerns about the use ...

Feb. 1 -- With so many high-profile prison escapes recently it might seem that inmates are fleeing like never before. First the "Texas Seven" broke out of a maximum security prison, and now six of ...

Rates of recidivism are higher for those released from maximum-security prisons — 40% of prisoners released from maximum security in 2018 were re-incarcerated within three years, state data show, ...

Last fall, Illinois emptied the maximum security prison at Stateville Correctional Center amid a lawsuit over the aging prison’s deteriorating condition. But as state lawmakers negotiate the ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.