Several federal prisons are set to either close or be deactivated in the coming months as staffing shortages continue to disadvantage the nation’s prison system.

Males detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be housed in units in several federal prisons around the country, according to the memorandum of understanding between the Bureau of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Prison Camp, Pensacola on Saufley Field is one of several facilities the Federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing, The Associated Press has learned.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Thursday that it will permanently close a federal prison in Dublin, California, as well as deactivate several prisons across the country — including in ...

A new interim director has been tapped to lead the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) as President Donald Trump looks to enforce a crackdown on transgender inmates in facilities that do not match ...

President Donald Trump said on May 4 that he is ordering the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay that closed more than six decades ago ...

Visitations at many of Arizona's prisons are closed, while other limitations are in place due to an uptick in inmate violence at several locations.

President Trump announced plans to reopen the infamous Alcatraz maximum security prison. Why was it closed in the first place?