Immigration and Customs Enforcement again has expanded in California’s Central Valley, activating a new 700-bed detention facility operated by the for-profit prison company Geo Group. Advocates say ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration plans to detain immigrants in the nation's largest maximum-security prison – a Louisiana lock-up with a ...

Explore the history of Canton’s 19th-century “jail liberties” marker and debtors' prison laws, which allowed debtors to work and roam free.

A life-threatening condition called sepsis kills hundreds of people in American jails and prisons each year, a USA TODAY investigation has found, but inmates with a history of drug use are at ...

(KREX) — Imagine going from running a country to living inside a detention center that’s been called “hell on earth.” That’s the reality right now for Nicolás Maduro, the once-unshakable president of ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. In theory, all of ...

Lieutenant Thomas Conrad was standing in a control room in Nashville’s new central jail when he noticed something off with one of the key rings hanging on the wall. It was midday on December 30, 2019, ...

The Dublin City Council on Tuesday night is poised to pass a resolution that opposes turning the now-closed women's prison – FCI Dublin – into any kind of detention facility in the future. The ...