These Bureau of Prisons programs teach prisoners about life, giving back and obeying the rules. Dog training programs and ...

The path he walked from panhandling in the South to being charged with killing two people along the heart of Denver’s downtown shopping district was marked by homelessness, illegal drug use, ...

Why does Louisiana lock up so many of its citizens? How did a broad coalition come together to reduce the prison population ...

A 41-year-old Connecticut man will spend years behind bars for a violent attack against his ex-girlfriend and robbery of a ...

A French woman was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for starving to death her daughter, who died of a heart attack in ...

Of the 780 people ever detained at Guantánamo, 540 were released during the presidency of George W. Bush, who established the ...

Hanatsheh was first arrested in November 2023, just weeks into the war triggered by Hamas' deadly attack on Israel. She was freed days later during a weeklong ceasefire in which hundreds of ...

Chinatown leaders are upset over being left out of talks on a new Manhattan "mega jail" and fear its local impact.

President Trump’s territorial assertions sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social media and sarcasm by at least one other world leader.

America First Legal sent letters to local officials across the country in December warning of prison sentences if they don’t ...