US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order instructing his officials to prepare a facility to house 30,000 ...

In an executive order, the president also moved to end gender-related medical treatments for transgender people in prison.

Howard County will have to keep its jail population at or below 292 inmates, allow for regular recreational time, build a new ...

"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...

Texas inmate Cesar Hernandez details the execution day for Ramiro Gonzales in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project.

A freshman Omaha senator is asking lawmakers to consider setting limits on the amount of time and people can occupy a single ...

365 death row inmates have received clemency at the state and federal levels. That may seem a sizable number, but as law professors Carol and Jordan Steiker note, “The modern era of American ...

Smithfield Foods' CEO Shane Smith says he hopes that everything the company has done to make working in its plants more ...

One of President Donald Trump's first executive orders signed on his first day back in office strictly recognizes only two ...

President Donald Trump signs executive order for mass deportation to ensue, while dissolving previous ban on private prisons.