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 ...

Bryan Kohberger, who admitted to the killings of four University of Idaho students, could be serve his sentence at a prison known for a botched execution and alleged insanitary conditions.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.