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

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

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

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 ...

CoreCivic gave to the Trump inaugural committee as it was ramping up its capacity to help the administration detain immigrants for profit.

A California man pardoned by Trump was imprisoned on federal weapons convictions in a case separate from charges from the Jan ...

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 ...

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

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 ...