A group of parishes along the Mississippi River is seeking more than $36 million in state funds to create a juvenile jail on ...

The laptops and related equipment like headsets and printers will be used in two state prisons as part the state's NJ-STEP ...

It's common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated ...

Jazmin, a DACA recipient and travel nurse, discusses her fears for her loved ones amid Trump's deportation policies and her ...

Harrison Ford is not too upset over “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” flopping at the box office. His fifth and final ...

The next Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons must immediately address pressing issues that have plagued the agency for ...

Shares of private prison companies have grown since the election. Those facilities could expand under Trump, despite claims ...

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal includes a plan to close two State Correctional Institutions and two ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele says he will incarcerate convicted criminals from the U.S. in his country, a macabre offer that is being praised as an "unprecedented" by U.S. Secretary of State ...

The Trump administration is assessing whether it could take up El Salvador's offer to house U.S. citizens convicted of crimes ...

State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling.

The president's mass deportation plans could funnel huge profits to private prison companies like Geo and CoreCivic.