BRIDGEPORT — A woman pleaded guilty Friday to escaping from a federal prison in Danbury while serving a more than eight-year sentence for setting fire to a church in Alabama, federal prosecutors said.

The Danbury facility also includes a minimum-security prison camp that holds 250 inmates. Alan Nevas, a retired Connecticut federal judge who now has a private practice as an arbitrator and mediator, ...

Disgraced ex-Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson is serving her monthlong jail sentence following her corruption conviction for pocketing a $7,000 kickback at a low-security federal prison ...

BOP Director William Marshall has announced the closure of multiple prisons across the United States. Big impact in Texas.

DANBURY -- Last year, following a public outcry, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons backed off a plan to shut down the women's prison at the Federal Correctional Institution to make room for more male ...