Scott Howard, longtime sheriff for sprawling Powell County, was remembered as a gifted investigator and interrogator and a ...

The Trump administration made a last-ditch appeal Monday to the Supreme Court hoping to overturn a US federal judge's order ...

Federal and state authorities are operating well within the boundaries of the U.S. Constitution when they deny inmates’ ...

A federal judge says the U.S. government’s decision to arrest a Maryland man and send him to a notorious prison in El ...

Germany marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp Sunday, with warnings ...

Entering his second year in office, Sheriff Tim Chilton gave an agency report at the annual State of the Community hosted by ...

A Justice Department attorney conceded that Abrego Garcia should not have been removed from the U.S. and sent to El Salvador.

Lawyers for a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador will ask a federal judge on ...

The Nevada Department of Corrections is racking up $60 million in overtime a year because of the need to shift correction officers from one post to another to address staffing ...

All but two Democrats in the Georgia State House exited the chamber to avoid voting on a bill to ban taxpayer-funded ...

While the city moves to redevelop the prison grounds, a Near Eastside group has started a separate project to tell former ...

Boxed into what they saw as an unsavory vote on outlawing spending on gender affirming care for transgender prisoners, ...