State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling.

Lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee stripped some of the measure’s strident elements but advanced it over a flood of ...

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial ...

Patrick Michael Cowan, 39, of Cheyenne was sentenced to 37 months of imprisonment, with three years of supervised release to follow, for being a felon in possession of ...

In a close vote, the House Appropriations Committee voted down a bill Monday afternoon that would have declared the High Plains Research Station and Arboretum a state historic ...

The lockdown at Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone officially ended on Tuesday, according to a post from the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

Tayvon Erwin-Morrison led a planned, group escape from a Lincoln youth detention center last summer after learning a Douglas ...

A prison where justice is a myth, and suffering is endless. Saydnaya Prison is where thousands have perished in silence, subjected to inhumane treatment, starvation, and mass killings. What do we know ...

Since 2006, Bloomberg Philanthropies, an umbrella organization of Bloomberg’s charities which includes the nonprofit Bloomberg Family Foundation, has donated billions to political interests and causes ...

A Cheyenne man has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, the United States Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.

Work is rapidly progressing on the expansion to the Haywood County Detention Center, with walls rising on the site.