The Trump administration is escalating efforts to crack down on gangs that move illicit drugs into the United States, with deadly military strikes at sea and measures to toughen up borders taking ...

Tucked into the high plains of Fremont County, a two-hour drive southwest of Denver, is America’s highest-security prison: ADX Florence, the only federal prison with a Supermax designation. The ...

Every year millions of people cycle through America’s prisons and jails. Many of them never make it home. Incarcerated people die of medical neglect. They die because guards beat them or because they ...

As students filed into Goldwin Smith Lewis Auditorium last Tuesday for GOVT 3141: Prisons, a different face than Prof. Mary Katzenstein, government, greeted them at the front of the room. Brian ...

The Louisiana prison chosen to hold immigration detainees because of its notoriety was once described as "the bloodiest prison in America" and has witnessed mass riots, inmate violence, and systemic ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people living illegally in the U.S. to self-deport, ...

(NewsNation) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to 50 months behind bars by a federal judge Friday, after being convicted on a pair of prostitution-related charges three months ago but escaping ...

After roughly a year in jail, Sean “Diddy” Combs received his prison sentence. Judge Arun Subramanian sentenced Combs to 50 months in prison. Combs’ lawyers have criticized this ruling. The attorney ...