A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

Robert Galler, 52, of Dyersburg, was sentenced in federal and state courts for sexual abuse involving minors, receiving a ...

A former high-ranking S.C. Department of Corrections guard bought cryptocurrency with some of the hundreds of thousands of ...

If budgets are a statement of priorities, Gov. Ron DeSantis in his seventh proposed budget makes clear where his lie. His ...

“A 2013 study by the Department of Justice estimated that nearly 35% of incarcerated transgender people in state and federal prisons were sexually assaulted between 2007 and 2012. From 2011 to 2012, ...

President Donald Trump signs executive order for mass deportation to ensue, while dissolving previous ban on private prisons.

William W. Lothrop was named interim Bureau of Prisons director after Colette Peters' resignation, as the president aims to ...

Larry Rhoden didn’t unveil any new proposals in his first gubernatorial address to state lawmakers Tuesday at the Capitol in ...

Bob Menendez, 71, was found guilty on all 16 counts in his federal trial, becoming the first sitting member of Congress to be ...

Drones are used for contraband delivery and the threats they pose to prisons and jails: what can local law enforcement do?.

President Bukele said his country will accept convicted criminals of all nationalities, including US citizens, into its ...