In 2017 in the initial days of Donald Trump’s first term, he instituted a government hiring freeze while exempting "essential ...

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has left her position amid President Donald Trump's efforts to implement ...

William W. Lothrop was named interim Bureau of Prisons director after Colette Peters' resignation, as the president aims to ...

The order reverses Biden’s ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Private immigrant detention never ...

Colette S. Peters, the former longtime director of Oregon’s prison system tapped to oversee the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was replaced last week, the agency announced. Peters had served as director ...

All individuals held in the D.C. jail on charges and convictions related to the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol have been ...

Robert Galler, 52, of Dyersburg, was sentenced in federal and state courts for sexual abuse involving minors, receiving a ...

A former professor of communications at Virginia Tech was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for possession of child ...

A memo asserts that state and local officials are bound to cooperate and could face criminal prosecution or civil penalties ...

Federal prosecutors are told in no uncertain terms that they will be on the front lines of an administration-wide effort to ...