A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives would take on one of the biggest safety concerns in federal prisons. Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02) introduced a bipartisan bill, H.R. 1046, the ‘‘Marc ...

The release date for a former state lawmaker who represented part of Bartholomew County and is currently in federal prison for corruption has been moved up, according to federal records.

As federal lawsuits challenge President Trump's executive order impacting trans inmates, the Bureau of Prisons is putting a stop to new policies demanding trans women hand over female-identifying ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s request for information on the most recent execution, ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is accepting into their facilities thousands of immigrants detained by the Homeland Security ...

President Donald Trump's administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber.

Trump's flood of executive orders has led to over two dozen lawsuits to date and a number of court decisions halting — at ...

The state House backed a revised $40.5 billion spending plan for this year that sets aside hundreds of millions of dollars ...

Multiple corrections officers violently beat Brooks on Dec. 9 in the infirmary at Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, repeatedly punching and kicking him in the groin, abdomen, face and back ...

A fight over so-called "truth in sentencing" legislation between Drew Wrigley and state prison officials has gotten ugly, and ...