Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Department of Corrections has named the two state prisons that it would close as part of efficiency efforts in the 2025-26 budget year. The recommendation from the state Department ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration says it's recommending the closure of Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp ...

Rowan Wilson, the chief judge of New York State’s highest court, used his State of the Judiciary address to push back against ...

The most prolific serial arsonist in American history, John Orr, 75, spoke out from Mule Creek State Prison to defend his ...

About a dozen US justice department employees who worked on investigations into Donald Trump have been fired by his administration, according to the BBC's US partner CBS News "Act ...

Federal prison records confirm at least five Washington men were released from custody Monday night after President Donald Trump issued sweeping pardons and sentence commutations for the hundreds ...

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from her position, while a Biden-era executive order that sought to phase out the use of private prisons has been repealed amid ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The state prison system in South Dakota is seeing its share of violence. There are currently more than a hundred court cases involving prison inmates in the hands of ...

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 ...

Those who walked out of prison included Enrique Tarrio, the pardoned former chairman of the far-right Proud Boys group who was sentenced to 22 years, and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes ...