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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is introducing a bipartisan bill to improve prison safety and security. Sens. Ossoff and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today introduced the bipartisan Prison Staff Safety Enhancement ...

A former West Virginia prison guard was convicted earlier this week on charges related to the 2022 death of an inmate at Southern Regional Jail in Raleigh County.

A Madera County man convicted of Jan. 6 Capitol riot crimes and gun-related offenses in a separate trial is headed to prison.

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

In an executive order, the president also moved to end gender-related medical treatments for transgender people in prison.

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

The Trump administration has authorized several more federal agencies to arrest and detain undocumented immigrants.