He was on death row in Butimba Central Prison in Mwanza. However, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Aggrieved by both the conviction and sentence, he lodged an application to AfCHPR, ...

President Trump’s decision to send migrants to a Salvadoran prison has set off a national debate in the U.S. In El Salvador, the phenomenon of men disappearing into prisons is all too familiar.

Morgan Freeman‘s Red dealing cigarettes in “The Shawshank Redemption” may be the ultimate example of the trope — packs of smokes are gold in prison. But formerly incarcerated people in New ...

A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons to “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” — the notorious ...

Trump posted he wants the prison to be "substantially enlarged and rebuilt." The new director of the federal Bureau of Prisons said the agency will "vigorously" pursue "all avenues to support and ...

Sen. Jon Ossoff's bill to address inmate-on-staff sexual assault in federal prisons passed the Senate. The bill mandates a comprehensive strategy from the Justice Department, including data ...

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has ...

The Trump administration has begun reopening immigrant detention facilities and shuttered prisons nationwide, the latest move in its effort to arrest, detain, and then deport illegal immigrants in ...

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged ...

Beginning in the 1980s, federal budgetary constraints and increasing incarceration rates moved the U.S. government to issue its first contracts with the private prison industry. This action fired ...