Tucked away five miles south of Newton, Iowa, Newton Correctional Facility holds 938 low- and medium-security inmates. The ...

The Bureau of Prisons is pushing ahead with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities corresponding to their sex at birth.

Republican Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law Friday a bill expunging transgender protections from the state’s civil rights code, making the Hawkeye State the first in the nation to do so. The ...

Thousands of them are crammed into the country's severely overcrowded prisons, some operating at seven times their capacity. A majority languish there without ever having been charged with a crime ...

Early this month, Thomson Penitentiary ended a 19-day lockdown to deal with security concerns over an "incident between a group of inmates," according to the Bureau of Prisons.