Over time, the term came to be used to mean the age by which someone should stop working or could not be hired, presumably because they were too close to death, she says. Newspaper editors began using ...

They had been held in Cahaba prison outside of Selma, Alabama, and the even more notorious Andersonville prison camp near Atlanta, Georgia.

Artwork by Bill Thompson, a longtime professor at UGA, is on display at Brenau University in nearby Gainesville.

Welcome to a bizarre tale of assassins, eunuchs, lunatics, and mass death, all threaded to American agriculture.

The Trump administration is opening a new detention camp within a notorious state prison in Louisiana to house undocumented ...

The property in the Waterloo Recreation Area near Chelsea once hosted a boot camp-style prison. Now, it has become part of ...

Critics are questioning the decision to hold immigrants at the maximum-security facility known as Angola, which has a troubled history.

Federal prison consultant Sam Mangel characterized Howell's transfer to Federal Detention Center in Houston as a "punitive" move by the Bureau of Prisons. The Federal Detention Center houses ...

The federal prison camp in central Texas that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to last week has increased security measures in response to her arrival, according to a senior law enforcement official ...

Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivors have criticized the transfer of convicted sex trafficker and conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security prison camp. NPR looks into what life is like there.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrival to the federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, this month has sent a shot of tension across its minimum-security all-female units, even while her lawyer says she’s in ...