Corrections officers seize drugs in Ohio’s 28 prisons about 180 times a week, on average.

The courts have set a 20-day limit on how long children can be detained. However, the new data shows that since Trump retook ...

Police used the Vallejo, California, rapper’s music against him. He used his jailhouse album to call them out by name.

Deputy Mayor Renita Francois will lead a new office that plans to dispatch more mental health professionals instead of police ...

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The controversial version of the U.S. flag has been hailed as a sign of police solidarity and criticized as a symbol of white supremacy. As protests over policing continue to convulse cities ...

Kheilin Valero Marcano, Stiven Arrieta Prieto and their 1-year-old daughter, Amalia, felt overjoyed when, in early February, they were allowed to leave the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. But ...

The U.S. government is reneging on key parts of a court settlement it struck with families whose children were seized at the ...

It’s been a month since Faviola Salinas Zaraté was deported from the U.S., but she still has nightmares about the Louisiana detention center where she said she was locked in a windowless isolation ...

Earlier this month, Josh J. Smith, who served five years in the federal prison system on drug charges, was tapped to be deputy director at the agency that had locked him up. The Bureau of Prisons ...

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