As one federal judge noted, prolonged supermax confinement "may press ... always be a few extremely dangerous or disruptive inmates in a prison population who need to be segregated for extended ...

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 inmate, identified as Shane McMillan, was previously convicted of assaulting a correctional officer at a federal penitentiary in Louisiana in 2006 and attempting to stab another inmate to ...

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s millennial dictator, has offered to house migrants and “dangerous criminals” deported by the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A prisoner suspected of stabbing Larry Nassar at a federal penitentiary in Florida said the disgraced former sports doctor provoked the attack by making a lewd comment while ...