Arizona is en route to creating an oversight office to monitor and report on the state Department of Corrections, ...

The first militarised zones, introduced in April and May, extend west of El Paso past factories and cattle yards to partially encircle the New Mexico border village of Columbus, and its 1,450 ...

The fourth national defense area created along the US-Mexico border will be an extension of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in ...

PHOENIX — The new head of the state Department of Corrections is a career employee of the federal Bureau of Prisons, where last year he instituted a policy that restricted access to books by ...

In nearly 350 death penalty cases Maricopa County prosecutors pursued over 20 years, just 13% ended in a death sentence. The numbers indicate the need for a more deliberate and transparent process to ...

Multiple employees at the Federal Prison in Phoenix were exposed to an "unknown substance." Grand Canyon flooding move sparks backlash: 'We are failing' I've studied over 200 kids—the ones with ...

Prisons bureau failed to screen inmates for colorectal cancer, watchdog says Among those who were screened and had positive results, 10 percent had not received a documented follow-up appointment ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them. Skyrocketing repair and supply costs compelled the Justice Department to close the prison in 1963 ...

Even as the Bureau of Prisons struggles with short staffing, chronic violence and crumbling infrastructure, Trump is counting on the agency to fulfill his vision of rebooting Alcatraz.

Meanwhile, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Alcatraz, the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, has sat idle for more than a year after the Bureau of Prisons cleared it of ...