The Oregon Department of Corrections plans to pay an outside consultant an estimated $550,000 over the next year to assess ...

Out of the gate in his second term, President Donald Trump has delivered a raft of executive orders and policy edicts that ...

Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a former U.S. attorney said.

A civil liberties group is concerned that state Sen. Terri Bryant is encouraging prison workers to circumvent the state’s ...

The review comes after a series of in-custody deaths, an investigation into an alleged smuggling ring, and a staffing crisis across the system.

Then he returned to Oakland for a two-year stint as chief probation officer for Alameda County, in the same system that once supervised him. As Muhammad says: “I went from being on probation to ...

R. Kelly is currently serving 30 years in prison for sex trafficking, concurrent with 20 years for child pornography, and he ...

A former Chicago Public Schools gym teacher has been sentenced to prison for grooming and sexually abusing three boys under the age of 13.

Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/TNS ... in any immigration enforcement against people incarcerated in the state prison system. Under the 2017 Trust Act, law enforcement in Illinois, including ...

The vast majority of the ideas won’t make it to the desk of Gov. J.B. Pritzker or become law, but the list of proposals ...

Bob Menendez to 11 years in prison Wednesday on corruption charges ... "You stood at the apex of our political system," Judge Sidney Stein said in issuing the sentence. "Somewhere along the ...

Democrats accused of corruption are seeking relief from President Trump as he hands out scores of pardons and drops charges ...