The Klyuchevskoy volcano, located on the Kamchatka peninsula close to the earthquake’s epicentre, has started erupting, ...

“He is born in Africa, and he’s running to be mayor of the global capital. So yes, there is a very strong sense of pride for ...

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But Louisiana was the first non-border state to surge immigration detention capacity, according to the American Civil Liberties Union ... That had the effect of dramatically decreasing the state's ...

Over the next four years, some $45 billion will be spent on ICE detention centers, which will hold mainly people who have never been convicted of any crime.

It sends immigrants to state prisons. And it holds about 90 percent of detainees in facilities run by private prison companies—-whose stock prices have soared since Trump’s reelection.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Keith Humphreys, professor at Stanford, about the falling prison population in the U.S., and the reasons behind that trend.

The population at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility is down nearly 40% in five years, thanks in part to the working of the Delaware County Public Defender’s Office, its chief reported ...

A South Dakota inmate who allegedly provided a drug to another inmate that led to his death in February has pleaded not guilty to charges against him.

If the legislature really wanted to reduce the prison population, they would repeal these petty statutes like disorderly conduct and bail jumping.