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The act has only been invoked three previous times in U.S. history, most recently during ... Prisoners sit at maximum security penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of Terrorism ...

President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with TIME at the White House on April 22. Over the course of the interview, ...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday signed a law that supporters hope will prevent future school shootings like the one that ...

With his face hidden behind a mask made of a ripped Pullman pillowcase (to thwart photographers), Earl Browder stepped off a train last week at Atlanta ... Contact us at [email protected] ...

(AP) — Amid rural Louisiana's crawfish farms, towering pine trees and cafes serving po'boys, nearly 7,000 people are waiting ...

Conditions at Atlanta's main prison ... largest incarcerated population in the United States with nearly 50,000 people behind bars in 34 state-operated prisons and four private prisons.