Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration says it's recommending the closure of Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp ...

Contraband in prison and the costs of enforcing the rules is costing the Bureau of Prisons millions. A better solution may be pushing more people into community custody.

Fears are growing that the offshore U.S. detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba are an ominous sign for what President ...

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Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable ...

Incarcerated firefighters play a crucial role in a state where wildfires seemingly get worse every year. But the state’s ...

President Donald Trump signs executive order for mass deportation to ensue, while dissolving previous ban on private prisons.

As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are ...

A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

A federal jury convicted him in October of scheming to conceal his involvement three decades ago in the persecution of Serb prisoners at the Celebici prison camp in Bosnia. Mrndzic also made false ...

Federal prosecutors showed 52-year-old Kemal Mrndzic persecuted ethnic Serbs at a notorious prison camp during the war and then made false claims to win asylum in the United States. A federal jury ...