Will Taylor County need to relocate inmates during a much-needed jail roof repair? At this week’s commissioners court meeting ...

The package of bills would tighten the state's bail laws to keep more people in jail — including undocumented immigrants — ...

A bill aimed at attracting the Chicago Bears, or another sports franchise, to Northwest Indiana passed out of the Indiana House Ways and Means committee Tuesday with two amendments. House Bill 1292 ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown, the federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday, returning ...

It's common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated mental illness or substance abuse. A new law will help them get Medicaid.

Steven Nelson, a 37-year-old convicted killer, became the first person executed in Texas in 2025. Nelson was put to death by lethal injection for ...

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) offered the Trump administration access to 4,000 vacant prison beds across Texas for the federal government’s detention of illegal immigrants in custody. Abbott’s pitch during ...

Texas will put to death on Wednesday a man convicted of the brutal 2011 killing of a Dallas-area pastor in his own church ...

At the signing of the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are ...

An Austin man could face up to 10 years in federal prison after he was charged with attempting to smuggle dozens of firearms into Mexico through Eagle Pass, according to a release from the US ...

An Illinois legislator has publicly asked staff at prisons in the state to contact her if they know about undocumented immigrants that she can report to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.