A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender women currently housed in women’s facilities at federal prisons.

It wasn’t until she was signing the lease agreement that someone said, “Did you know this is an old prison?” Indeed, the development, now called Liberty, had a former life as the Lorton ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele offers to house deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens, in the country’s maximum-security prison. Photo ...

Russia handed prison sentences on Friday to three lawyers who had defended opposition leader Alexei Navalny until his death in a Russian prison last year, capping a protracted legal saga that has ...

On the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump reversed former President Joe Biden’s executive order on private prisons. Biden’s order had barred contracts between the Department of Justice ...

Just over four years ago on the campaign trail, Joe Biden made a bold pledge to voters that as president he would end the federal use of private prisons – facilities where inmates have long ...

The government is expected to announce the launch of a Women's Justice Board to reduce the number of women in prisons as soon as next week. It is a progressive approach to sentencing that went ...

A man who served time in prison after struggling with substance abuse has shared six habits he still uses from when he was behind bars. Derrick Moore from Alaska in the US, is a motivational ...

Colette Peters has resigned as Director of the Bureau of Prisons after 30 months on the job just as President Donald Trump was inaugurated on Monday. Deputy Director William Lathrop will take over ...

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has resigned from her position, while a Biden-era executive order that sought to phase out the use of private prisons has been repealed amid ...

The Bureau of Prisons confirmed it is holding some people arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown, though it has not disclosed how many or where. Federal jails in Los Angeles, Miami ...