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

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

Shares of private prison companies have grown since the election. Those facilities could expand under Trump, despite claims ...

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

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

which his lawyers argued is “vindictive and cruel” in part because it would endanger him by making him ineligible for a minimum-security prison. “As a result of his position in government ...

Part of the federal prison system, the facility is a federal medical center for female inmates and has an adjacent minimum security satellite camp, according to the Bureau of Prisons. FMC Carswell ...

Prosecutors had requested Menendez serve a minimum of 15 years prison time for his conviction ... levels of the legislative branch of the United States government.” “Even leaving aside ...

and the security of U.S. employees stationed abroad and foreign nationals working for the United States abroad.” Attorneys for Menendez had requested a sentence of no prison time with at least ...

“We’re in a maximum-security prison where we know there’s no way out for us ... Medrano recalls joining gangs in the United States at age 11-12. His back bears “CCS” (Crazy Criminals Salvatruchos) ...

"We are in a maximum security prison where we know there is no way ... in El Salvador but spent part of his childhood in the United States, where he joined a gang aged about 12.