A federal judge took the rare step last week of concluding an incarcerated, self-represented plaintiff should be compensated ...

FIRST ON FOX — Eight federal inmates — once on death row for murders, including the killings of fellow prisoners, gang-related stabbings, and the slayings of two campers — have been transferred to a ...

The U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, also known as the ADX or "Supermax," in Florence, Colo. (Jason Connolly / AFP - Getty Images file) A federal judge has denied a legal attempt, ...

A new lawsuit launched by 21 of the 37 convicts whose death sentences were controversially commuted by President Biden at the close of his presidency accuses President Trump of violating the Eighth ...

A group of federal prisoners filed a lawsuit this week accusing the Trump administration of seeking to move them to a supermax prison to face tougher conditions as punishment for having their death ...

Federal prosecutors rested their death penalty case Wednesday against Sayfullo Saipov, the radical Islamic terrorist who killed eight people on a lower Manhattan bike path. The government wrapped up ...

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces two likely, grim possibility – the death sentence or life in one of the most destructive prisons in America, “a place so isolating that it has been ...

The federal prison is supposed to be one of the most secure facilities in the country. 'Alcatraz Of The Rockies:' Life Inside ADX What do we do with the worst of the worst, after they’re sentenced for ...

A federal judge last week permitted a Muslim man serving a life sentence in Colorado's "supermax" prison for terrorism-related offenses to pursue a limited number of religious freedom claims against ...

The lawyers at Arnold & Porter and the D.C. Prisoners' Rights Project had to consider carefully which prisoners at the ADX could serve as representatives for the subclass of severely mentally ill ...

NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - Joaquin Guzman, the convicted Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, has escaped twice from maximum security prisons in Mexico, once by digging a mile-long tunnel from his ...