U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has joined Senator Jim Justice (R-WV) to introduce the Bureau of Prisons Security Check ...

An inmate attacked the officers while they were conducting an "emergency cell extraction," according to officials.

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman (D), alongside West Virginia Senator Jim Justice (R), is proposing legislation to help ...

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

A federal judge in Rhode Island says she'll temporarily block the Trump administration from cutting billions in federal public health dollars.

All but two Democrats in the Georgia State House exited the chamber to avoid voting on a bill to ban taxpayer-funded ...

People detained in Vermont’s prisons for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection struggle to call their families and have been exposed to physical violence.

Opinion: Georgetown Law's Vida Johnson and Amanda Rogers say the Bureau of Prisons' personnel shortage, combined with recent ...

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.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was in the U.S. legally, is now in prison in El Salvador, and federal courts have no ...

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

Hundreds of people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration are being kept at an overcrowded detention ...