In 2017 in the initial days of Donald Trump’s first term, he instituted a government hiring freeze while exempting "essential ...

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has left her position amid President Donald Trump's efforts to implement ...

Following Trump’s executive order, a trans woman held at a federal prison was told she would be moved to a men’s prison.

The order reverses Biden’s ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Private immigrant detention never ...

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

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

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

A former professor of communications at Virginia Tech was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for possession of child ...

Federal prosecutors are told in no uncertain terms that they will be on the front lines of an administration-wide effort to ...

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges any state or local ...