In 2017 in the initial days of Donald Trump’s first term, he instituted a government hiring freeze while exempting "essential ...

The order reverses Biden’s ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Private immigrant detention never ...

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has left her position amid President Donald Trump's efforts to implement ...

One of President Trump's first executive orders impacts transgender inmates incarcerated in federal facilities. It's just one in a series of actions signed by Trump that target the trans community.

Colette S. Peters, the former longtime director of Oregon’s prison system tapped to oversee the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was replaced last week, the agency announced. Peters had served as director ...

Drones are used for contraband delivery and the threats they pose to prisons and jails: what can local law enforcement do?.

A former professor of communications at Virginia Tech was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for possession of child ...

Robert Galler, 52, of Dyersburg, was sentenced in federal and state courts for sexual abuse involving minors, receiving a ...

The Trump administration has authorized several more federal agencies to arrest and detain undocumented immigrants.

In an executive order, the president also moved to end gender-related medical treatments for transgender people in prison.

Federal prosecutors are told in no uncertain terms that they will be on the front lines of an administration-wide effort to ...