The former executive director for the Whitefish Housing Authority was sentenced to prison on Friday for embezzling funds from ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown, the federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday.

In memos released this week, Trump’s new attorney general rolled back Biden-era reforms and called for harsher sentences and ...

President Trump signed a series of executive actions that would limit transgender and nonbinary people's rights by focusing ...

It's common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated ...

Longtime Democratic Federal Election Commissioner and Chair Ellen Weintraub on Thursday said President Donald Trump sent a ...

The next Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons must immediately address pressing issues that have plagued the agency for ...

The judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan, found that the plaintiffs had “demonstrated that irreparable harm will follow” if ...

The department’s No. 2 official, Emil Bove, escalated his conflict with the interim leaders of the F.B.I., accusing them of ...

A federal judge has ruled in favor of three transgender women who asked not to be transferred to male prisons across the ...

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who was appointed by former Republican president Ronald Reagan in 1987, is presiding over a lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., on behalf of three transgender women ...

Shares of private prison companies have grown since the election. Those facilities could expand under Trump, despite claims ...