The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) had an eventful year with positives, negatives and brought closure to some old issues.

DUBLIN, CA – The federal Bureau of Prisons agreed to an unprecedented settlement over widespread reports of staff-on-inmate sexual abuse at the now-disbanded Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in ...

The House on Tuesday passed a bill that is now awaiting the president’s signature to prompt agencies to implement measures that bolster security at federal buildings. Specifically, the ...

Federal Prison Camp Pensacola will permanently close as part of a nationwide fix for "several significant challenges" with the Bureau of Prisons. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) announced ...

Federal Prison Camp Pensacola will permanently close as part of a nationwide fix for "several significant challenges" with the Bureau of Prisons. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) announced they ...

The Ministry of Justice promised to find a total of 14,000 cell spaces in jails by 2031 (Niall Carson/PA) Prisons in England and Wales will run out of space despite Government plans to build four ...

Thousands of prisoners were freed from Assad's prisons after Syrian forces toppled his two-decade-long dictatorship on the weekend. Some of those who emerged were long feared dead. Days later ...

Thousands of people were rushing to labyrinthine prisons, searching for any trace of loved ones they feared had disappeared into their unseen depths. The most notorious gulag lies in the barren ...

Liberal frontbencher Paul Fletcher has announced his retirement from politics. Picture: Sam Mooy/Getty Images "Today I announce that I will not run for re-election at the forthcoming federal ...

Since Assad’s fall, my social media feeds have swelled with images of rebels storming prisons, of bewildered prisoners stumbling through opened doors, of crying women blinking in daylight ...

"A young boy spending years of his youth in a prison — in Assad's prisons, which is a different type of prison," Almashi, a Syrian refugee in London who founded the organization Syria Solidarity ...

After rebel forces overran Damascus on Saturday, toppling the government of President Bashar al-Assad, thousands of prisoners stumbled out of Syria's nightmarish prisons, suddenly freed after ...