The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline. A new prison population report from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics,

The U.S. prison population grew by 2% from 2022 to 2023, with 1.2 million people held in state and federal facilities, according to new data from the Justice

A new prison population report from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, released before the federal shutdown, shows that 1,254,224 people were incarcerated in state and federal prisons on the last day of 2023 — an increase of 24,081 people from the year before, or about 2%.

Salt Lake City — A Utah judge on Monday sentenced a man who appeared to fake his death and flee the United States to avoid arrest on rape charges to anywhere from five years to life in prison.

At a medium-security prison in the desert outside Boise, two Idaho State Police detectives begin to interview corrections Sgt. Brian Klingensmith. All three officers dedicated their lives to keeping criminals in line,

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

Nearly a week after leaks cut off water for about 1,500 inmates at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, inmate Bryce Baltezar said things at the facility are dystopian.

The man who faked his own death and assumed a new identity in Scotland to avoid prosecution in the United States was sentenced to the Utah State Prison on Monday, while still maintaining his innocence.