Bryan Kohberger, who pleaded guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students, is expected to serve his life ...

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 ...

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 ...

States of all political stripes, including Oklahoma, North Dakota and Massachusetts, have sent officials to tour prisons in ...

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, ...

France's justice minister is transferring 100 of the country’s most dangerous inmates to a high-security prison to prevent ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.