A Hennepin County jail deputy is fortunate to be alive and back at work after surviving a brutal assault on the job.

A federal jury found CoreCivic liable for failing to protect a former inmate and awarded the man $27.8 million, according to ...

As President Trump seeks to make good on his campaign pledge of removals of migrants, the U.S. immigration detention system is bulging with prisoners.

Fried, the convicted FTX co-founder, has been moved to a lower-security prison in California — a decision now under scrutiny ...

USA TODAY's initial analysis of previously secret records shows how numbers of in-custody overdoses, murders and suicides changed pre-pandemic.

Hernández Romero’s case exemplifies the carelessness that has marked the Trump administration’s arrangement with El Salvador ...

Critics of the US criminal justice system have often pointed to the “tough on crime” politics originating during the Nixon ...

Corrections officers from both Mid-State and Marcy correctional facilities are already facing charges in beating deaths in ...

Across the U.S., some people with mental illness wait months in jail for court-ordered competency evaluations, with little to ...

In a social media post Sunday, Utah state Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, appeared to suggest that the state could save money by ...