President Donald Trump issued an executive order that directed the federal government to only recognize two sexes: male and ...

The brother of a Bentleyville man who was left “festering alone in his cell” inside the Washington County jail before later ...

Investigators are working to determine if a man serving a prison term for a Sacramento County burglary was killed by his cellmate on Wednesday, according to the California Department of Corrections ...

A new bill before the Washington ... in state prisons from invasive strip searches. The proposed legislation would prevent jail guards from conducting strip searches to determine an inmate's ...

A 66-year-old Shelton, Washington, man was sentenced to 90 months in prison Friday for his role in a drug trafficking ring ...

Bowman. 44, will be the third Black man to be executed in South Carolina in four months after the state restarted its death chamber following a 13-year pause in part because prison officials ...

A Maryland prison inmate has been hospitalized after testing positive for a serious form of pneumonia caused by the bacteria Legionella, state officials said. Last week, an inmate at Dorsey Run ...

However, private prison companies effectively found ways to shift federal contracting to immigration detention. Over Biden’s term, as the number of federal inmates in private prisons under ...

Washington lawmakers are exploring a variety of legislative solutions to address chronic issues at its juvenile ...

came up in her online search ... is an old prison?” Indeed, the development, now called Liberty, had a former life as the Lorton Reformatory, a prison housing inmates from Washington, D.C ...