West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with ...

SACRAMENTO — It has been nearly six years since federal prosecutors here revealed the first of two massive prosecutions aimed at moving incarcerated Aryan Brotherhood members out of the state ...

The money supports libraries at Eastern and Western State Hospitals, and the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library in Seattle. She said the cuts could reduce staffing and the availability of ...

At a hearing this week, witnesses described behavior by Jonathan Braun that could result in his being locked up again.

while the federal system houses more than 150,000. U.S. Sen. Jim Justice — who, as West Virginia’s governor, appointed Marshall to lead the state’s prison system — praised Marshall’s selection in a ...

Before the Trump administration’s cuts, members of the civilian federal work force were in every state and in thousands of ...

The head of West Virginia’s state corrections system, long plagued by overcrowding and inmate deaths, has been tapped to lead the agency that manages federal prisons beset by similar issues.

An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison cells is likely violating inmates’ constitutional rights, but he declined to order the state's prison system ...

While China enforces strict laws against domestic drug trafficking, state-supported companies have openly shipped fentanyl to ...

So, American taxpayers pay to escort federal prisoners to a place where they can have their unborn child killed. What do state prisons do? This month, the Bureau of Justice Statistics published a ...