The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...

New research shows that antiabortion states are losing population, especially among single-person households, as concerns ...

State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive ...

The latest numbers won’t be available until spring, but the count came as recent national figures show homelessness rates ...

President Joe Biden's record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed. He succeeded in reducing the detainee population he inherited by more than half ...

Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West prisons hold the highest number of foreign national inmates in South Africa ... aligned with the current prison population. This was to ensure that ...

PIERRE, S.D. (SDBA) -- During a legislative budget hearing today (Thursday), South Dakota corrections officials defended plans for a new $825 million men's prison, facing tough ... "We're taking this ...

No two places are the same in South America, so it’s hard to know which ... The majority of the population lives on the western side of the Andes, which is home to hiking opportunities and ...

The Chairwoman of the Correctional Services Portfolio Committee said there are 22,000 foreign nationals in the country's prisons At some correctional services facilities, like Pretoria's Baviaanspoort ...

DALLAS - The man who received the longest prison ... to South Florida. He said Trump’s decision to grant clemency to all Jan. 6 defendants reflects the will of the voters. "I think November 5th of ...

“Traditionally the population that was held in custody by for-profit firms tended to be those convicted of federal crimes who are undocumented,” said Eisen, author of a book about private prisons and ...