A shuttered private prison in Watonga will reopen as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility after securing a contract with the state, raising concerns among local immigration ...

The FCC is slated to vote Tuesday on whether to consider a proposal to lift the restriction on cell jamming technology inside state prisons. But it faces opposition from the wireless industry and ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said the state would close a Jessup prison by next summer due to “substantial capital costs” required to rehabilitate the ailing facility.

Contraband cellphones aren’t a new phenomenon. They move into prisons through well-worn pipelines: dropped over fences, by drones, via off-site worksites and through complicit staff who smuggle them ...

Danbury federal prison union leaders were told to vacate offices after Trump DOJ said it was canceling their collective bargaining agreement.

Jay Doherty, the former City Club of Chicago leader and Commonwealth Edison consultant, reported to federal prison Tuesday to begin serving a one-year sentence handed down in the bribery scandal ...

Correctional officers at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco are writing to Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta asking to keep the prison open, presenting it as an option to alleviate the overpopulation in ...

For years private prison companies have been an important partner for ICE as the government carries out its immigration agenda.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Tyrell Morris, New Orleans’ former 911 call center director, was sentenced Wednesday (Oct. 1) to one year in state prison after being convicted last week of abusing his position ...

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. PIERRE, S.D. — The state of South Dakota must do a better job of ...

Guy Michael Scott, freed because of potential prosecutorial misconduct in his 1984 trial, now gets anxiety attacks as he faces everyday life decisions.

Two of the five men convicted in the murder of NBA star Chris Paul's grandfather could remain behind bars for years, as the NC Supreme Court reviews their case.