U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said he was prohibited Thursday from visiting El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison to try ...

Inmates sit in a treatment dorm at Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore, Ala., Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, around the time of ...

Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.

A woman from Telford whose father raped her when she was a child is calling for a reform of the Disclosure and Barring ...

Confronted by unified opposition, top officials from the state Department of Corrections heard calls from a bipartisan ...

President Trump says the Justice Department is reviewing laws to see if it can send violent U.S. citizens abroad.

The lawsuit, filed with the help of the Uptown People’s Law Center, claims the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) relies on isolation, violence and discipline in place of actual mental health ...

A Republican state senator who leads the Alabama Legislature’s prison oversight committee said the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles refused for more than a year to answer the committee’s questions ...

Second Chance Month is a time to recognize the challenges faced by people with criminal records and advocate for meaningful ...

Ten prison guards were charged in connection with the fatal beating of a 22-year-old prison inmate, including two charged ...

Insights from joining correctional leaders, policymakers, and advocates on trips to Germany and Norway to learn about more ...

A word exists for a prison that “functions outside a judicial system” and where “prisoners are not indicted or convicted of ...