We're still trying to pick up our jaws off the floor from the Luka Doncic and Anthony Davis trade. The biggest questions are for the Dallas Mavericks: why would they trade a 25-year-old ...

Lawyer Andrew Cohen analyzes legal affairs for CBS News and CBSNews.com. I spent this 9-11 anniversary in the most unlikely of places—the so-called "Supermax" federal penitentiary complex in Florence, ...

It’s home to Ramzi Yousef, who plotted the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center; 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui; “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski; and Richard Reid, the “shoe bomber.” When inmates ...

No inmate has escaped from federal supermax prison In a speech defending his plans for the detainess at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Barack Obama said Americans should not be concerned about them ...

Fourteen years ago, Maryland opened its ultramodern Supermax prison, a high-tech fortress to hold the "worst of the worst." In contrast, a few blocks away stood the Maryland Penitentiary, a dark, ...

Fourteen years ago, Maryland opened its ultramodern Supermax prison, a high-tech fortress to hold the “worst of the worst.” In contrast, a few blocks away stood the Maryland Penitentiary, a dark, ...

FREMONT COUNTY For $54,000 a year and good benefits for his wife and two kids, corrections officer Joe Hill spends up to 16 hours a day suited up and sequestered inside a concrete and razor-wire ...

When you think about it, it’s really no different than any other public works project: You need prisons, you build prisons. You need better ones, you design and build better ones. When prison ...

There are currently more than twenty thousand prisoners in the United States, nearly two percent of the prison population, housed in special super-maximum security facilities or units. Prisoners in ...