In 2017 in the initial days of Donald Trump’s first term, he instituted a government hiring freeze while exempting "essential areas" from the freeze.

Trump ran on a campaign to explicitly finish the job he started on Jan. 6 and, on his first day in power, he did that as best he could.

Rep. Hal Rogers has wanted another prison in eastern Kentucky for years. Local and national activists say the new land owners ...

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has left her position amid President Donald Trump's efforts to implement ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The head of the Bureau of Prisons is out of a job. Forbes reported that Colette Peters resigned on Monday, ...

That figure would represent almost all of the nearly 1,600 people who were charged in the riot by the fourth anniversary Jan. 6, according to the Justice Department. About 1,270 had been convicted and ...

Leaders of far-right militia groups and other US Capitol rioters who were convicted of violently assaulting police were freed ...

Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters is out as the head of the beleaguered agency and her track record was mixed.

Marissa A. Suarez, a former corrections officer at the Monmouth County Jail who entered the Capitol building on Jan. 6, ...

Congress created the position of attorney general in 1789 so the national government had a designated lawyer to conduct ...

The announcement last year that New York would close another two prisons set off tremors in two upstate communities that stood to lose hundreds of well-paying jobs. That's what happened four ...

The announcement last year that New York would close another two prisons set off tremors in two upstate communities that stood to lose hundreds of well-paying jobs. That's what happened four months ...