WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Prison Camp, Pensacola on Saufley Field is one of several facilities the Federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing, The Associated Press has learned.

Several federal prisons are set to either close or be deactivated in the coming months as staffing shortages continue to disadvantage the nation’s prison system.

The report, by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, comes after an investigative series by The Marshall Project and ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Thursday that it will permanently close a federal prison in Dublin, California, as well as deactivate several prisons across the country — including in ...

Federal officials notified Congress on Tuesday that they intend to make permanent the closure of the scandal-plagued FCI Dublin women's prison.

Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been a tourist spot for decades.

President Trump said on May 4 he wants to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison. It closed in 1963 because it was too expensive to operate.

A Justice Department investigation continues into a California women’s prison that came to be called the “rape club,” in ...

Visitations at many of Arizona's prisons are closed, while other limitations are in place due to an uptick in inmate violence at several locations.

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a U.S. tourist destination because it had become too ...