The Bureau of Prisons maintains four levels of security for inmates it houses ranging from minimum (camp ... and white collar criminals who have little or no history of physical violence.

Cell phones in prison might expose the public to ... BOP case managers across the country have created lists of minimum security inmates who might be eligible for home confinement, something ...

Getty Images He was allowed one phone call his first week at the prison ... have nowhere to return to and could become a flight risk. Masterson was reportedly transferred to a minimum-security ...

All of the escapes happened at minimum-security federal prison camps, some of which don’t even have fences, and house inmates whom the Bureau of Prisons considers to be the lowest security risk.

If anything, prisoner advocates say Massachusetts should make more use of minimum-security prisons. “You have to accept some risk when preparing prisoners for reentry,’’ said Leslie Walker ...

The actress entered a minimum-security federal prison camp in California on Tuesday ... They are not allowed to have phones, which are considered contraband and can land someone in a special ...

Cell phones are not allowed in federal prisons, though they are often smuggled in to minimum-security facilities. “He won’t have legal access to the internet,” Hurwitz noted, and though he ...

He escaped on Saturday. In minimum security prisons, inmates are given rooms rather than cells, and are allowed to have a number of furnishings, including a television. (Ken Gigliotti/Winnipeg ...

Prison workers have spent several weeks transforming it into a minimum-security environment, removing locks from secure doors and adding a larger visiting room. By Tuesday morning, inmates who ...

“Instead of the secure perimeter of a maximum or medium security prison, minimum security prisons have boundaries and the offenders need to stay within that boundary area, but there are no fences or ...