A NEW STATE LAW requires California to maintain oversight of all publications banned in state prisons. The state’s Office of ...

Correctional officer unions are backing a bill introduced earlier this month that would change how mail is processed in federal prisons.

President Donald Trump’s newly installed attorney general is ordering the transfer of a federal inmate to Oklahoma so he can ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown ...

Crittenden, decided to build a second penitentiary to relieve overcrowding ... committee’s decision and testimonies in a 483-page book in 1887. By 1887, most of the witnesses brought before ...

“His team is thinking outside the box: How can we address ... courthouses, prisons, prison camps, and veteran’s medical clinics. For the most part, the Louisiana federal workforce includes ...

A group protested Elon Musk’s government-cutting efforts outside the state’s only Tesla showroom in South Burlington Thursday. There’s not enough space in Franklin and Grand Isle’s ...

Now, Stec says plans to craft new legislation to address drugs in prisons. “I’m in the process of writing a letter to the governor and to Corrections and to my colleagues on this subject of ...

Paterson’s comments come after the federal government publicly revealed Thursday that Kingston Pen – a former maximum-security prison that has held infamous criminals like Paul Bernardo ...

As a Times reporter, in 1999, Peters visited Peltier when he was being held at a federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians ...

By the spring of 1984, Peltier was in a federal prison in Marion, Illinois, where he and two other Indian activists had staged a hunger strike in April to protest the prison's alleged refusal to ...