U.S. Attorney Ryan Buchanan to step down ahead of Trump inauguration. During his tenure, the DOJ undertook high-profile investigations into the Fulton Jail and state prisons ...

ATLANTA – State prisons chief Tyrone Oliver asked Georgia lawmakers Monday for $10.4 million to hire an additional 330 correctional officers during this fiscal year to staff a prisons system the U.S.

Three transgender women are asking for "emergency relief" to not be transferred to male prisons across the country, saying ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Gov. Brian Kemp is proposing a big burst of new spending on Georgia’s prisons, including planning another new correctional facility and launching an extensive renovation program.

President Trump signed a bevy of new executive orders Monday evening that have the potential to significantly transform the ...

Taylor was sentenced to death in 2008 for fatally shooting Atlanta restaurant owner Guy ... is seen in an undated photograph taken at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

President Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to build a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to house deported ...

Mia Amor Mottley, Chairman of CARICOM and Prime Minister of Barbados, expressed profound gratitude for the decision in a statement. “This long-awaited exoneration is a testament to the ...

Guards spotted the fight involving several inmates at about 10:45 a.m. Wednesday in the United States Penitentiary in Beaumont. "Responding employees isolated and contained the incident and at no ...