On Feb. 7, several sanctuary cities, led by San Francisco and including Portland, New Haven, Santa Clara and Kings County, ...

The Prison Policy Initiative's report reveals how disciplinary systems in prisons around the US make those facilities less safe for everyone.

If shut down, inmates from the prisons would be transferred to the other 22 state prison facilities scattered across the ...

President Donald Trump's administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.

Trump will meet Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House Tuesday afternoon as the Israeli prime minister faces competing ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A line of white buses carrying Palestinian prisoners set to be released left Ofer prison in the West Bank.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Eight more hostages were freed from the Gaza Strip by Hamas-led militants on Thursday in a sometimes chaotic process that briefly delayed Israel's release of 110 ...

The passage of this critical legislation would mean the basic human rights and dignity of prison employees would be better safeguarded, and Bureau of Prison employees would be better suited to perform ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Sen. Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison for taking bribes of cash and gold, acting as agent of Egypt.

Lawmakers have proposed a package of legislation to reform state prisons after Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old Rochester incarerated man, died Dec. 10 after more than a dozen correction officers beat him ...