Prison abolitionists argue that the U.S. prison system is ineffective and that alternatives such as restorative justice and ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is pushing forward with her efforts to force Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson to drop a longtime policy that generally prohibits deputies from directly ...

Alabama’s prison system has been in the federal crosshairs for years, and as the latest lawsuit from the Department of ...

Mass incarceration is a complex issue that cannot be solved by simply tweaking the system, but rather by addressing the root ...

The Salvadoran prison, where Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held, keeps inmates tightly confined with little ...

Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday night that he had met in San Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador last month has become a ...

A government memo obtained by CBS News shows the Trump administration created broad rules outlining which migrants can be ...

GREENBELT, Maryland — A federal judge ordered an “intense” two-week inquiry into the Trump administration’s refusal to seek ...

Maybe it's just a sign of our angry and divided times, but I'm finding that critics often don't read past the headline or the ...

Philadelphia’s jail population has reached its lowest level in recent memory — the result of a behind-the-scenes effort that ...

Lawyers for the migrants said the deportees sent to El Salvador “have been confined, incommunicado, in one of most brutal prisons ... the U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security ...

The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of ... O'Steen reported to a prison camp in Montgomery, Ala., in December 2022 but was later transferred to a low-security unit at Federal Correctional Institution ...