Roughly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders nationwide received a grant of executive clemency in January, including 10 people in ...

The outcome of the appeal, brought by GEO Group, could set important legal precedent on wages for detainees who work in ...

Successful petitions to receive compassionate early release from federal prisons due to health issues are rare. They are even ...

Opened in the wake of the terror attacks on the US in 2001, Guantanamo Bay has held some of the most dangerous people ...

Investigator say Deputy Basil Powell was killed in an ambush near his home in a dispute unrelated to his work at the County ...

As federal lawsuits challenge President Trump's executive order impacting trans inmates, the Bureau of Prisons is putting a ...

A federal judge on Friday sided with a coalition of 22 states and temporarily blocked a federal aid funding freeze directed by the Trump administration — the second such order this week.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said it gave no orders to shut down government websites amid confusion over complying with a new Trump administration policy requiring agencies to scrub ...

This time, though, the government would also aim to send members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to Salvadoran prisons, said Mauricio Claver-Carone, the State Department’s special envoy ...

It bars transgender women from women’s prisons and prohibits federal funds from being used for “any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance ...

A federal judge temporarily halted the transfer of a transgender inmate to a men’s prison under President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting gender-related accommodations in federal ...

Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. Most inmates in Wisconsin’s federal prison, and in federal prisons nationally, are U.S. citizens. Following Trump administration arrests of ...