Thomas Silverstein is so lethal he spent 36 years in solitary confinement and has earned the nicknames 'Terrible Tom' or ...

Thomas Silverstein, known as "Terrible Tom" and "America's most dangerous prisoner," spent 36 years in solitary confinement - ...

Assaults on correctional officers in New Jersey’s state prisons are not an aberration, but part of a trend both officials and ...

"Terrible Tom" was known for his extreme violence and leadership of one of the world's most feared prison gangs.

The U.S. sent hundreds of Venezuelan men to a Salvadoran mega-prison. Two of those men describe beatings that occurred during ...

Venezuelans spent months in a Salvadoran prison after being sent there by the U.S. Imprisoned men described torture — and ...

A Homeland Security news release Wednesday highlighted the case of German Adriano Llangari Inga, an undocumented immigrant ...

Last year will likely register the lowest national homicide rate in 125 years and the largest single-year drop on record, ...

Once billed as rehabilitative alternatives to prisons, these facilities are the sites of fatal overdoses—like that which ...

With Congress-approved funding, ICE detention is expected to triple in size, mirroring the scale of Japanese internment.

Two inmates described as “suspected assailants” are being investigated in connection with a fatal attack at a facility in ...

New tensions flared a day after a Kurdish-led militia agreed to hand over control of prisons holding some 8,000 Islamic State ...