A new Louisiana law creates the crime of unauthorized camping, which could punish the homeless with fines they can't pay or ...

A Bloomington man has been jailed for street camping. He seems to be the first since Senate Enrolled Act 285 took effect July ...

Jailed activist Sylvester Namiwa has finally swapped his prison cell for the comfort of his own home, after being released from Maula Prison following days of frustrating bureaucratic delay. I want a ...

The High Court in Lilongwe yesterday granted human rights activist Sylvester Namiwa bail on charges of treason and publishing false news. However, it remained unclear by press time whether Namiwa had ...

Authorities are searching for an inmate who they say walked away from a prison camp west of Lake Tahoe on the Fourth of July. The inmate, 49-year-old Miguel Banuelos, was last seen at the Washington ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Federal Medical Center on Leestown Road in Lexington. The satellite camp of the Federal Medical Center in Lexington will close ...

BOP will close FMC Lexington satellite camp due to staffing and maintenance issues. Nine prisons and satellite camps, including FMC Lexington's camp, will be closed. FMC Lexington houses just over ...

ALBANY — The state Senate has once again passed a resolution that would allow the state to sell the site of the former Camp Gabriels state prison in the Adirondack Park, but as this year’s legislative ...

A Civil War prison camp operated along the Chemung River in Elmira between July 1864 and July 1865, and nearly 3,000 of the 12,000 Confederate soldiers incarcerated there died. With the only remaining ...

Inmates at Ghislaine Maxwell’s low-security prison camp in Texas claim they were transferred to a higher security detention center as punishment for speaking out against the convicted sex trafficker ...

The prison camp operated from 1903 to the 1930s. Parts of the camp have been deemed unsound and pose a safety hazard. Local officials have opposed razing and asked to explore other options. RUTLAND – ...