Indigenous group seeking to restore and reclaim Appalachian land buys 63 acres within site of proposed federal prison with the support of prison opponents.

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.

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

The Boise resident was one of five Idahoans whose convictions were pardoned. Two other ongoing cases have been dismissed.

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 ...

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

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 ...

According to a former prison inmate, Batool quickly secured a job in the prison library while awaiting trial last year. Speaking to The Sun, the inmate explained that Batool worked for her block ...