The City Commission in Leavenworth approved a permit to private prison operator CoreCivic. Members voted 4-1 to approve a three-year permit with conditions that set minimum staffing levels, ban the ...

Medicaid is now paying for health care in jails and prisons, helping smooth inmates’ return to the community. Corrections and law enforcement officials say they’re all for it.

The bill advanced out of the House Judiciary Committee on a 7-4 vote along party lines, following intense scrutiny from Colorado legislators on both sides of the aisle.

Upon arrival, refugees are permitted to live and work indefinitely in the U.S. They are also eligible to “adjust” their immigration status to lawful permanent resident, also known as a “green card,” ...

The Leavenworth City Commission voted Tuesday to grant CoreCivic a special use permit to reopen the long-closed prison as a facility for detainees held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Leavenworth has approved CoreCivic's ICE detention permit and oversight committee and detainee intake are the next steps.

A Schenectady man faces multiple felony charges after corrections officers allegedly discovered a cache of illegal drugs ...

Barring any unforeseen complications, Sherburne County is locked in on pursuing a new 1/4-cent local option sales tax and an ...

L.A. County's supervisors called on the Sheriff's Department to implement new health and safety measures after 10 inmate ...

If you gathered every American with a prison record into one contiguous territory and admitted it to the union, you would ...

Department of Detention (DOD) operates one of the largest local jail systems in the United States and the sole jail system serving Broward County.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences to the nation's highest security federal prison, warning ...