Nevada prisons have nearly 700 undocumented immigrants in custody, costing taxpayers about $24 million a year.

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 ...

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

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

Former Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison Wednesday for a brazen bribery scheme that ...

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

Former Sen. Bob Menendez is set to be sentenced Wednesday in New York in a sweeping federal corruption case, where the 71-year-old former chairman of the Senate Foreign ...

A Swampscott man who hid the fact for 25 years that he oversaw prison camps and persecuted Serb prisoners during the Bosnian War was sentenced to prison, United States Attorney Leah Foley’s ...

More than 1,000 California inmates have been fighting the wildfires, a controversial practice that dates back to 1915 and results from a complex intersection of public safety, labor economics, and ...

Jan. 21—LIMA — A defendant in the Allen County Common Pleas Court was sentenced Tuesday to a minimum of 17 years in prison on charges of aggravated burglary and felonious assault. Rocky Hayner, 30, is ...

Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters is out as the head of the beleaguered agency and her track record was mixed.