Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

The bill allocates $45 billion for immigration detention and $29.9 billion for enforcement and deportation activities. It ...

A reader called this situation a “mess” and asked how we got here and what can be done to fix it. The road to mass incarceration. The first U.S. prison was founded as a “mor ...

One of the ironies of Nunez’s story, and something that still rankles him, is he received just $75,000 in a settlement in ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A fugitive drug trafficker wanted by authorities in Ecuador and the United States was recaptured more than a year after he escaped from prison in the Andean nation ...