Trump has a plan to triple ICE’s incarceration capacity, enabling it to detain an additional 84,000 people at any time.

Prosecutors have reduced a felony misconduct charge against a former Wisconsin prison warden implicated in two inmate deaths ...

Melisha Johnson, a single mother, faced a 12-year prison sentence for writing bad checks, but found redemption through ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas prisons could be fully air conditioned within the next decade if a newly proposed bill becomes law.

Like local jails nationwide, Montana's small holding facilities have become institutions of last resort as patients in mental ...

Audrey Griffin’s accused killer borrowed a razor blade from his cellmate claiming he had to shave, only to then use it to take his own life.

Understaffing and overcrowding in prisons are causing unsafe conditions, low retention rates, and a higher suicide rate among ...

The Senate panel's action followed a series of Free Press articles about fatal jumps and falls at two Jackson-area Michigan prisons.

GEO Group, now one of the major players in corrections, built a facility in Jena in the late 1990s. It later won a contract ...

HARARE - Luke Zinyengere, the notorious armed robber who made headlines last year for his alleged involvement in the ...

Four wardens at Mangaung Correctional Centre are accused of murder and defeating the ends of justice after the death of an ...