The 1,800-bed private prison owned by Florida-based GEO Group, is located in Webber Township near Baldwin. GEO Group announced Thursday that the company entered into a contract with ICE and will ...

FOLSOM – The California State Prison, Sacramento is among facilities that are being placed on modified movement after a surge in violence, correctional officers said. Effective Saturday ...

A couple will go to prison for a Valentine’s Day road-rage shooting last year in Kootenai County. Patrick J. Coffey, 48, was sentenced this month to 20 years in prison with parole eligibility ...

Privatization of prison food isn’t a new phenomenon, but it’s growing substantially. According to one market analysis, the industry was worth almost $3.2 billion in 2022 in the United States alone, ...

The justice secretary has not ruled out shortening the sentences of violent offenders in a drive to create more space in an over-stretched prison system. Speaking to Sky News, Shabana Mahmood MP ...

LAKE COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) -- A private prison in Lake County is set to reopen with a federal contract and could house up to 1,800 immigrants detained by ICE. Previous story: Shuttered prison ...

From Porridge to Prison Break, TV audiences have long had a fascination with incarceration. With bars reducing the options for action, the consequences are always amplified. A captive audience is ...

An ex-prison officer who boasted about performing a sex act on an inmate who "manipulated" her has been jailed. Mother-of-one Katie Evans, 26, burst into tears in court as the judge described ...

A new child-friendly visitation space at Ellsworth Correctional Facility aims to make family connections easier, thanks to a ...

Kristi Noem will also visit Colombia and Mexico. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the prison in El Salvador holding migrants at the center of the deportation battle ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Staff with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) falsified records about how hot it got in at least one Texas prison, according to an internal investigation tied to a ...

Severe weather in the South Plains typically begins in the Eastern South Plains in April, the Central South Plains in May, ...