Jessica Larson was indicted after an investigation by the Department of Justice and Bureau of Prisons found that she began a ...

A federal prison nurse at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Rochester has been indicted for sexually abusing an inmate.

Donald Trump is cementing a partnership with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, whose assault on civil rights is being ...

WASHINGTON – Three transgender people currently incarcerated in federal custody have filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump Administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) challenging ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Six days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Alishea Kingdom went ...

Tennessee houses nearly 29% of its inmates in private prisons, ranking it among the top four states nationally. Since 2000, the number of Tennessee prisoners in private facilities has surged by 95 ...

Accessing equitable health care is an ongoing struggle in the US for minority communities due to historical pretexts with new ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ordering a fix before summer in what has become of the country’s ...

Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S. Attorney offices, who prosecute the cases.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since ...