In 2017 in the initial days of Donald Trump’s first term, he instituted a government hiring freeze while exempting "essential ...

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has left her position amid President Donald Trump's efforts to implement ...

The order reverses Biden’s ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Private immigrant detention never ...

Colette S. Peters, the former longtime director of Oregon’s prison system tapped to oversee the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was replaced last week, the agency announced. Peters had served as director ...

A California man pardoned by Trump was imprisoned on federal weapons convictions in a case separate from charges from the Jan ...

Drones are used for contraband delivery and the threats they pose to prisons and jails: what can local law enforcement do?.

A former professor of communications at Virginia Tech was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for possession of child ...

A Madera County man convicted of Jan. 6 Capitol riot crimes and gun-related offenses in a separate trial is headed to prison.

The Trump administration has authorized several more federal agencies to arrest and detain undocumented immigrants.

Federal prosecutors are told in no uncertain terms that they will be on the front lines of an administration-wide effort to ...

In an executive order, the president also moved to end gender-related medical treatments for transgender people in prison.