On Feb. 3, 2011, corrections officers at the Lewisburg federal penitentiary in central Pennsylvania arrived outside Sebastian Richardson's cell door. With them was a man looking agitated, rocking ...

Lewisburg federal prison is a medium-security men’s institution located in central Pennsylvania, and thousands of inmates often pass through there on their way to other BOP-run institutions.

LEWISBURG – The Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary is now a permanent holdover facility housing inmates in transit to their designated prison in this part of the country. Holdover facilities are ...

When it was built in 1932, Lewisburg exemplified a penal philosophy that, in Morin’s words, “stressed reform over retribution of the surging prison population of early-20th-century America.” ...

Interior of a double solitary cell in the Lewisburg federal penitentiary. Double-cell solitary is a common practice in federal prisons, where more than 80 percent of the nearly 11,000 inmates in ...

Lewisburg federal penitentiary in central Pennsylvania. (Federal Bureau of Prisons) A federal facility in Pennsylvania has failed to take steps to reduce suicide risks among inmates — contrary ...

At one of the toughest prisons in America, doubling up inmates in cells designed for solitary confinement can lead to violence, and for some who refuse a cellmate, handcuffs and chains.

Lewisburg federal prison is a medium-security men’s institution located in central Pennsylvania, and thousands of inmates often pass through there on their way to other BOP-run institutions. A ...