New York's FY2026 budget is officially finished, and as the spending plan was taking shape over the past few weeks and months ...

NEWARK — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at an federal immigration detention center where he was protesting its opening, a federal prosecutor said.

As mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka has a responsibility to ensure that facilities operating in the city are adhering to laws that ...

IDOC spent years trying to find lethal injection drugs, only to have their use-by date lapse while contending with delays, ...

Victor Malin Jr. shares his personal struggles with foster care, incarceration, and the foster care-to-prison pipeline in a ...

The prison was also ordered to update its procedures so that all inmates have access to the religious items specific to their faith practices, according to court documents.

John McAuliff’s journey from Vietnam War protester to peace advocate spans decades — from refusing the draft to helping ...

The Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic ...

Its final sentence declares that ''no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of vice president of the United States.'' Together, the two amendments ...

President Donald Trump plans to announce in Saudi Arabia next week that the United States will now refer to the Persian Gulf ...

Since 2017, Gov. Phil Scott has pushed for new prisons while consistently undercutting public education — a key driver of health and crime. Vermont plans to build a $100 million “women’s re-entry ...

U.S. Judge Beryl Howell issued a permanent injunction against the president Friday night, ruling that his executive order ...