With only a few more days left to pass legislation, the state Legislature advanced two controversial Senate bills that would ...

A federal judge’s finding that extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutional could lead to the state being ordered to ...

Hawaiʻi has agreed to open its prisons and jails for inspection by two national experts who will assess the state’s troubled ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressman David Kustoff (R-TN) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduced the Cellphone Jamming ...

Texas has more than 130,000 people in prisons. Only about a third of roughly ... Kate Brumback in Atlanta, Morgan Lee in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix contributed.

Forest Services in Atlanta is the other million-dollar savings ... Several concerning cuts involve the Bureau of Prisons, the Small Business Administration, the Federal Energy Regulatory ...