The day after he was arrested while working at a restaurant in Texas, Mervin Jose Yamarte Fernandez climbed out of a plane in shackles in El Salvador, bound for the largest mega-prison in Latin ...

The $97 million proposed prison project has sparked significant concern among public health experts who believe that it will only exacerbate existing social and health disparities. Instead, they ...

Mothers at the Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia now have the option of living side ...

Gene Hackman, the two-time Oscar winner with more than 75 film credits amassed over his 40-year career, died at his Santa Fe home along with his wife, the pianist Betsy Arakawa, on February 26, 2025.

Dec. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] A judge on Tuesday gave final approval to a legal settlement that subjects the federal ...

It would be part of a trend where the New York Focus publication reports over 20 prisons have been closed over the past two decades as the prison population has dropped from over 70,000 to just ...

New York is struggling to bring an end to a strike involving thousands of corrections officers that is leading to severe staffing shortages in the state’s prisons and concerns about deteriorating ...

Correction officers and sergeants are refusing to report for duty at 36 of the state's 42 prisons, while others are still working and walking the picket lines. Gov. Kathy Hochul deployed thousands ...

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has offered to house in Salvadoran prisons U.S.-deported immigrants of any nationality — even U.S. citizens with criminal convictions. The offer is a ...

The governor proposed several changes for state-run prisons, including body cams for corrections officers and the authority to close up to five more facilities by March 31, 2026. The amendments ...

WASHINGTON – A federal judge has blocked the Justice Department from transferring 12 transgender female inmates to male prisons in a setback for President Donald Trump’s executive orders ...