Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 ...

AUGUSTA (WGME) – Maine lawmakers are debating mandatory minimum sentences for criminals. Right now, some criminal offenses in ...

Rowan Wilson, the chief judge of New York State’s highest court, used his State of the Judiciary address to push back against ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration says it's recommending the closure of Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.

Fentanyl trafficking, under existing law, can already be punished with life in prison, and sentences are often more than 10 ...

The next Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons must immediately address pressing issues that have plagued the agency for ...

But long before then, in the waning months of the Biden administration, ICE asked private-prison companies such as Geo Group ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has ...

LONDON (Morning Star News) – Two Christian converts from Islam who were locked in an Egyptian prison and held for three years ...

Former Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced for a brazen bribery scheme that saw him put his political ...

Republicans in the U.S. Senate and House have introduced multiple bills to increase penalties for crimes committed foreign ...