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.

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 ...

Public health data disappeared from websites, entire webpages went blank and employees erased pronouns from email signatures Friday as federal agencies scrambled to comply with a directive tied to ...

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

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

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 ...

Senate Bill 6002 makes it a felony for local government officials to support "sanctuary" policies protecting immigrants in ...

Demetrius Frazier’s lawyers asked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to demand his return to his home state, where he would live ...

The bill seeks to criminalize local officials who support sanctuary policies for immigrants along with other measures in an ...

A Shelby County Sheriff’s Office corrections deputy is now facing bribery and official misconduct charges, the office ...

Tennessee House Republicans voted overwhelmingly in favor of sweeping immigration legislation Thursday, creating a new ...

Behind the locked gates of Richard L. Bean juvenile prison in Knoxville are shackled kids, no privacy and Bean’s favorite sadism: children in solitary confinement, often for days at a time.