The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has resigned from her position, while a Biden-era executive order that sought to phase out the use of private prisons has been repealed amid ...

JOHANNESBURG - Foreign prisoners outnumber local inmates at some correctional services facilities. This has raised concern in Parliament's Correctional Services Portfolio Committee. Chairperson ...

On the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump reversed former President Joe Biden’s executive order on private prisons. Biden’s order had barred contracts between the Department of Justice ...

“Just because a corrupt judge doesn’t have the fortitude to do the right thing doesn’t mean that I need to go to prison. This lady really screwed up. And I think it’s going to come back around,” ...

Two Americans, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, were freed in a prisoner exchange between the United States and the Taliban. The deal was brokered by former President Biden before he left office ...

Islamabad, Pakistan — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime saw two Americans freed in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California ...

In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for ...

Ecstatic crowds waving flags greeted the buses that left the sprawling Ofer prison complex in the occupied West Bank early on Monday. Inside were 90 Palestinian prisoners, all women, teenagers and ...

Prisoners are being released after President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned or commuted the sentences of those convicted in the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Trump's first action ...

Colette Peters has resigned as Director of the Bureau of Prisons after 30 months on the job just as President Donald Trump was inaugurated on Monday. Deputy Director William Lathrop will take over ...

The prisoner exchange was the result of "long and productive" negotiations between Afghan and American authorities, Afghanistan's foreign ministry said in a statement. Mohammad was arrested in ...

Two Americans detained in Afghanistan were released in a prisoner exchange with the Taliban in the final hours of former President Joe Biden's time in office before President Donald Trump took ...