The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a fellow inmate at the federal government ...

At 18, Jack Morris was convicted of murdering a man in South Los Angeles and sent to prison for life. It was 1979, and ...

I've visited noisy, boisterous state and federal prisons, where inmates scream for a visitor's attention or proclaim their innocence. But at Supermax -- officially called "Administrative Maximum ...

The story of how California’s incarcerated men improved ... became the blueprint for maximum security facilities now known as Supermax prisons. With 1,000 units dedicated to solitary confinement ...

In 1995 a federal court examining the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of the Pelican Bay State Prison—a California supermax —found that “many, if not most, inmates in the SHU experience some ...

The Trump administration has deported 17 more alleged gang members to El Salvador, the US state department has said, despite ...