Bureau of Prisons

The suit alleges guards beat and raped Aafia Siddiqui, denied her medical care and violated her religious freedoms. Her case has also long been the subject of international controversy.

A second case filed against a former FMC Carswell employee is the latest in a string of sexual abuse cases reported at the Fort Worth-based federal prison.

The courts, along with federal and state lawmakers, have created a series of barriers against improving prison conditions with air conditioning.

Three women incarcerated at the Hobby Unit prison in Marlin, Texas describe the dangers and challenges of living in a Texas prison with no air conditioning.

Inmates say food melts in front of them and claim their cells' temperatures exceed 150 degrees.

The deaths of two inmates at the federal facility in East Texas led to a dayslong lockdown of the country’s prison system.

The agency that oversees the country’s federal prison system didn’t elaborate on which facilities were affected.

Prisoners have broken out at lockups in nearly every region of the country. Twelve of the inmates who escaped in 2020 — from prisons in Florida, California, Louisiana, Texas and Colorado — remain at large.

State prisons shut down visitation last March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Brandon Bernard and Alfred Bourgeois, scheduled to be executed this week, would be the ninth and 10th people executed by President Donald Trump's administration this year.