On the eve of the scheduled hearing, the Department of Justice filed papers asking the D.C. Circuit Court to prohibit the ...

Shares of private prison companies have grown since the election. Those facilities could expand under Trump, despite claims ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...

A federal judge temporarily halted the transfer of a transgender inmate to a men’s prison under President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting gender-related accommodations in federal ...

NEW YORK -- The captain of an unauthorized tour boat that capsized in the Hudson River, killing a woman and a 7-year-old child, was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison, prosecutors said.

El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but ...

Tour Boat Captain Gets Prison After Boat Capsizes off NYC ... “that there will be consequences when they fail to follow the federal regulations and safety protocols that exist to keep passengers ...

A Chicago-based subcontractor is suing one of the firms involved in managing the construction of the Obama Presidential ... filed the lawsuit in federal court last month against New York-based ...