The report, by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, comes after an investigative series by The Marshall Project and NPR exposed similar abuses.

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The $45 billion for immigration detention in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" represented a long-sought win for private prisons.

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Outgoing Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility Battalion (Corrections) Command Sgt. Maj. Travis Huggard relinquished ...

Police have made an arrest in the slaying last month of an Ohio man found shot in the head and slumped over inside his ...

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Federal court-appointed monitors visited Hinds County’s Raymond Detention Center in May for the first time in nearly three ...

Former Westies boss Jimmy Coonan denied early release by appeals court; faces mandatory prison term until at least June 2030.

The Senate Appropriations Committee sputtered Thursday as its consideration of the annual Justice Department funding bill was ...

Representative Tim Burchett said he thinks files related to Jeffrey Epstein were "destroyed" by the Biden administration.

After closing USP Thomson (IL) in 2023 and repurposing the facility as a low security prison, the OIG noted widespread abuses ...