The five bills that would require complete air conditioning in state prisons haven’t had a hearing yet, and the money set for ...

Lawmakers are pursuing legislative changes that would keep more people locked up in overcrowded county jails while awaiting ...

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. edged lower for the second week in a row, a modest but welcome boost for ...

Prosecutors say the investigator whose photo Young Thug reposted is currently a witness in a “multi-defendant gang murder” case. The judge explicitly said during a hearing that the investigator was ...

Supporters of the union, which represents 30,000 prison employees, fear the move will worsen an ongoing staffing crisis.

A Venezuelan man was deported to an unsafe prison in El Salvador, despite weak evidence linking him to criminal activity or ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The U.S. operates one of the largest and most punitive criminal justice systems in the world. On any given day, 1.9 million people are incarcerated in more than 6,000 federal, state ...

A years-long fight over the temperature inside Texas prisons has entered a new phase. In a landmark ruling issued on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled that keeping inmates in ...

President Donald Trump’ s administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to ...

New York state prisons will release some inmates early because the system does not have enough corrections officers, weeks ...

With women in antiabortion states dying from pregnancy complications, lawmakers are scrambling to deal with the backlash by ...

Texas state prisons incarcerate more than 4,500 people in two-person cells the size of a parking space for nearly 24 hours a ...