The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 years. The sites are being repurposed.

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President Donald Trump has targeted the rights of transgender people in executive orders in his first two weeks back in ...

Six fishermen from Tamil Nadu’s Rameswaram arrived here, after they were released from a prison in Sri Lanka, an official at the Chennai airport said on Thursday. Their release was facilitated by the ...

A federal appeals court this week reinstated the murder conviction against Thomas Clardy, who was released from prison in ...

U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) have reintroduced the Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act, a bipartisan effort aimed at curbing rampant sexual harassment and assault of ...

A city or county elected official could face up to six years in prison and a $3,000 fine under the bill that’s now awaiting Gov. Bill Lee’s signature. Nashville leaders called this bill a very ...

A former middle school teacher and basketball coach in Kentucky has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for the ...

A man accused of killing five people in Texas in 2023 after a neighbor complained that he was keeping a baby awake by firing ...

Recently, an ankle monitor began beeping in a Georgia church, local media reported, prompting a Honduran man seeking asylum in the U.S. to step outside, where immigration enforcement agents arrested ...

A government memo aimed at implementing President Donald Trump’s order rolling back protections for transgender people has ...