Alabama lawmakers are seeking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000 ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations advocates want to try again in 2026.

Lawmakers presented legislation that would allow the state to borrow an additional $500 million to build two prisons, ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

The Trump administration appears to be considering sending immigrants facing deportation to FCI Dublin, a former federal ...

CoreCivic, one of the largest private detention companies in the country, is expecting a boom in business due to Trump policy ...

Eric Amavizca-Ayala came to the United States as a small child and has two brothers living in Manteca who are United States ...

The Trump administration’s deployment to Latin America in recent days offered a nugget of insight into the president’s unusual worldview. In Panama City, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sternly told ...

As President Donald Trump's second administration continued its swift recasting of the federal government and American ...

The next Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons must immediately address pressing issues that have plagued the agency for ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...