Senator Jim Justice has introduced the BOP SCAN Mail Act, a bill aimed at stopping synthetic drugs, including fentanyl, from ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

WILLIAMSPORT—The suicide ruling in the 2023 death of a convicted murderer while incarcerated at the State Correctional ...

The inmate a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe in South Dakota who served as advocate for the queer and transgender ...

Also, a Tennessee representative wants to crack down on cell phones in prison and community gardens applications open in ...

People need to see that image,” Noem said of the striking photos of her surrounded by rows of tattooed inmates crammed inside ...

The judge ruled Texas prison cell temperatures, which regularly exceed 90 and 100 degrees, likely violate rights against ...

Citing President Trump's policies, Congressman David Lowe calls for the transfer of thousands of incarcerated immigrants to ...

Bryan Bailey, the Mississippi sheriff whose department had been under federal investigation for torturing people, staffed his ...

The Trump administration is arguing in federal court that it was justified in sending the Venezuelans to El Salvador, while ...

Prison staff and inmates move through the Darrington Unit's main hallway on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Credit: Jolie McCullough/The Texas Tribune ...