There are currently more than twenty thousand prisoners in the United States, nearly two percent of the prison population, housed in special super-maximum security facilities or units. Prisoners ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. Todd Chrisley and his wife are currently serving federal prison ...

Prior to Cabral and da Silva, no prisoner had ever escaped from the federal penitentiary system, which oversees five maximum-security prisons. According to the National Secretariat of Criminal ...

[AFP] Fallen Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was locked up Friday at the ADX federal maximum security prison in the US state of Colorado, where he will spend the rest of his days.

Even a federal maximum-security prison can't hold Richard Pace (Golden Globe nominee PIERCE BROSNAN), a brilliant international thief. But his daring escape and high-octane car chase, eluding the ...

Meanwhile Cabinet minister, Christopher Pyne, has rubbished a proposal by Victoria's premier to build a new federal maximum security prison to hold Australia's most dangerous terrorists.

upheld the constitutionality of the regulation in Jersawitz v. Hanberry, a 1986 case in which federal prison officials denied an independent television producer access to a maximum security prison.

On Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons website said Shell remained at the federal maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, where he and Gangster Disciples kingpin Larry Hoover are ...

Larry Nassar was knifed repeatedly at a federal penitentiary in Florida ... in solitary confinement at a maximum-security Minnesota state prison, “largely for his own protection,” his former ...