Supporters gather outside the Central Detention Facility in Washington, D.C. on Monday, chanting for the release of those ...

Prisons across the country are struggling to find nursing home placements for sick prisoners after granting them parole. In ...

A lawmaker in the House of Representatives announced plans to introduce legislation that would abolish the death penalty in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The head of the Bureau of Prisons is out of a job. Forbes reported that Colette Peters resigned on Monday, ...

Friday morning and afternoon, officials conducted a deliberate — and sometimes difficult — serious mental illness hearing for ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WTAJ) — A lawmaker in the House of Representatives announced plans to introduce legislation that would abolish the death penalty in the Commonwealth. The bill, authored by Rep. Russ ...

Eric S. Ettinger, Mifflin County Regional Police Department patrol officer and school resource officer, has announced his ...

Officer James Green is known for being selfless at Broad Street Elementary School, where he’s dedicated to helping the ...

Over 1,100 California inmates have worked around the clock to help fight Los Angeles-area fires that have killed at least 25 ...

By pursuing these measures, the agency can advance the criminal justice reforms initiated in 2018 to improve reentry services ...

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

In late 2023, the Healey-Driscoll administration’s Department of Correction began implementing the #NoCostCalls bill passed in the fiscal 2024 budget, an act providing for unlimited free phone ...