Donald Trump is planning on sending migrants to the controversial prison Guantanamo Bay where inmates have been 'tortured', ...

Lawmakers presented legislation that would allow the state to borrow an additional $500 million to build two prisons, ...

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Alabama lawmakers are seeking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000-bed prison.

Earlier this month, a now-anonymous Redditor posted in r/AskReddit, requesting that people share the tales of the most clever ...

As a result of these changes (or for other reasons), you may wish to depart the federal government on terms that provide you with sufficient time and economic security to plan for your future ...

The Trump administration planned to scrub some federal government websites in order to remove content contrary to the president's thinking, administration officials told CBS News, and word spread ...

Thomas J. Crittenden, decided to build a second penitentiary to relieve overcrowding at the Jefferson City penitentiary, built in 1836. A commission consisting of John Walker, state auditor ...

In our news wrap Friday, a judge sided with nearly two dozen states that requested a temporary restraining order to block President Trump's plans to freeze federal grants and loans, Israeli ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A second federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's order to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans. On Friday, a Rhode Island district judge issued a ...

Only a day into his second term, President Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda began to take fuller shape, as his administration raced to delete a dizzying array of federal rules meant to combat ...

U.S. authorities are preparing to transfer former federal death row ... Haute — to a higher-security prison in Colorado. Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” the ...