West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with ...

Daniel Mitchell, 42, pleaded guilty Dec. 23 to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an inmate only referred to in court ...

Ishmael Petty, 56, will face trial for allegedly murdering cocaine dealer LaMarcus Hillard, 40, about 9.15am on September 19, ...

Union representatives said they believe the increase in prison overdoses are a result of drug traffickers exploiting mail ...

South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...

The Democratic-led New York City Council is planning to challenge Mayor Eric Adams' move to allow federal immigration agents to open an office at the Rikers Island prison, which they argue runs afoul ...

Kathan Guzman was convicted last year of murdering his girlfriend, 19-year-old Dalia Grayson, and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Authorities said the police unit was trying to arrest a suspect in Tijuana when the man opened fire, hitting and killing ...

Documents show ICE seeking to expand detention facilities already in use, open new facilities in 10 states across the Midwest ...

A federal judge on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with a requirement that everyone in the U.S.

In a flurry of rulings this week, the high court allowed the administration to proceed with mass firings but maintained legal guardrails on deportations.

The U.S. Air Force Academy will no longer consider race as a factor in admissions as the military school had long done to boost enrollment of Black, Hispanic and other minorities, U.S. President ...