The majority of state constitutions shield lawmakers from arrests, lawsuits and low-level infractions like traffic tickets ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities that will house ICE detainees are the Federal Detention Center, Miami; Federal Detention Center, Philadelphia; Federal Correctional Institution, Atlanta; and ...

The layoffs are unlikely to yield significant deficit savings. The government spends about $270 billion annually compensating ...

The Velvet Hammer.” “Sphinx.” “King of Illinois.” “The Wizard of Oz.” “The Real Governor of Illinois.” “Himself.” ...

Deise Moura dos Anjos' partner Diego is said to have sent a lawyer to the jail in Guaiba near the southern Brazilian city of ...

The legislation would increase penalties for citizens and allow anyone who is not a citizen to be deported for evading arrest ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

A Brazilian woman accused of killing three relatives with a poisoned Christmas cake has been found dead in her jail cell. ...

As for González, a lawyer with limited political experience, locals view her with distrust as the political heir of former ...

Michael Lee Wood has been in prison for 47 years, serving a life sentence for murder. But that’s only half of the story.

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee is looking into how a former police officer landed an investigator's job at the U.S. Center for SafeSport despite sex-crime allegations.