The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year ...

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

After losing his son in a private prison, Tim Leeper fought for reform, and Tennessee lawmakers listened. Now, private prisons with high death rates will face consequences.

Owners of soon-to-be illegal ninja swords are being urged to surrender them or face prosecution and even prison.

Co-hosts the U.N. and Spain believe the meeting is an opportunity to close the staggering $4 trillion annual financing gap to ...

Jurors started deliberating Monday in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking case, weighing charges that could put the hip-hop ...

WHAT THE BILL SAYS: The bill, which top White House aide and immigration hawk Stephen Miller has called “the most essential ...

In a one-page memo issued months into the new policy, prison system officials signaled to county court clerks that they need ...

Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal to avoid the ...

Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, ...

After losing his son in a private prison, Tim Leeper fought for reform, and Tennessee lawmakers listened. Now, private prisons with high death rates will face consequences.

You may know John McTiernan as the director of such beloved action movie classics as 1988’s Die Hard and the thrilling sci-fi ...