One aspect of the Republicans’ big, ugly bill that didn’t get enough attention until Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez elevated it over the last few days is the massive amounts of money it directs to the ...

Brian Koehn, a Marine Corps veteran and former warden, is leading a movement to transform the criminal justice system with ...

As the opening of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is imminent, other states with Republican leadership have been in touch with ...

In an incredible development, the president celebrated a peace deal between the two nations, which could end the decades-long ...

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The death of Daniel Park​, the Washington state man accused of conspiring to bomb a fertility clinic in California, is being ...

Republicans gave $45 billion to help ICE detain hundreds of thousands of immigrants — and another $100 billion to further ...

Oklahoma’s $74 million deal to privatize food service in state prisons was canceled because the selected vendor failed to ...

A state lawmaker wants to triple the rate local jails are paid to house inmates who are waiting to be transferred to a state ...

The state's only halfway house for people convicted of federal crimes closed six years ago so those who qualify for ...

Hurricane Katrina is the deadliest flood event in the U.S. in the past 25 years. The storm crashed into the Gulf Coast and ...