A Nebraska-run immigration detention facility in McCook will begin accepting the first federal migrant detainees at the state ...

George Banks, one of the most notorious mass murderers in the U.S., has died. Pennsylvania's Department of Corrections says Banks died Sunday afternoon at Phoenix state prison. Montgomery ...

Dissenting from the court’s majority, one judge sounded the alarm about ignoring recanted forensic testimony, saying the ...

A 2023 state audit of the TCCO found that it had "improperly extended ... Kirsten Budwine, an attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, says the TCCO has less oversight than a Texas prison, where ...

Learn about the overcrowding crisis in Dallas County jail, the impact of Proposition 3, and the consequences for public safety and mental health.

For pregnant women who are spending time in prison, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice maintains specialty programs and ...

A New York judge dismissed a legal challenge Friday from Texas seeking to enforce a more than $100,000 civil judgment against a doctor accused of prescribing ...

It’s the latest step to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.

Months after approving a deal with a private company, former Oklahoma Department of Corrections Director Steven Harpe joined ...

A Trump administration proposal would strip Texas’ more than 86,000 DACA recipients of their work permits — including two nurses who say they’ll move to other states if that happens.

A San Angelo man was sentenced to 20 years for a hate crime aggravated assault after a seven-hour standoff with police in ...