When President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, it may have marked the first time a form of clemency was granted on a current inmate of the ...

Feb. 12 (UPI) --A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plans to relocate former death row inmates to the country's most restrictive supermax prison.

Tucked into the high plains of Fremont County, a two-hour drive southwest of Denver, is America’s highest-security prison: ADX Florence, the only federal prison with a Supermax designation. The ...

FILE - Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department, Feb. 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) (Ben Curtis ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a fellow prisoner at the federal government’s “Supermax” prison in Florence, Colorado, while serving a ...