The U.S. Supreme Court is skeptical of a private prison contractor’s appeal over a dispute regarding wages for immigrant detainees.

Restaurateurs all across the United States have turned decommissioned or disused jails, holding cells, and prisons into ...

Detainees in ICE custody may participate in voluntary work programs within detention facilities, according to ICE policy.

Thai prisoners are being forced to make fishing nets for private companies under threat of punishment including beatings and delayed release, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has found.

For three decades, the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center was moored to the banks of Hunts Point, serving as an overflow facility for Rikers Island.

MANPOWER AND MONEY TO IMPLEMENT HARD LABOR SENTENCES. HOUSE REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS PUSHING TO BRING BACK HARD PRISON LABOR AS AN OPT IN FOR CONVICTED OFFENDERS SAY THE KIND OF WORK THEY WANT INMATES TO ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A Winters, Texas, man and former candidate for Runnels County commissioner was sentenced to 16 years in prison Thursday in the sexual abuse of a young family member in Woodway.

Five months after President Donald Trump commuted his federal life sentence, Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover has made his pitch for clemency on a state murder case to the Illinois Prisoner ...

Lawyers for Hoover, 74, say his health is deteriorating. Lawyers for Larry Hoover, founder of the Gangster Disciples, are asking Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to grant him state clemency following Donald ...

A Southern California couple was sentenced to prison for murdering a woman who was one of their former lovers. Margarita Jimenez, 34, of Oxnard, and Jorge Garfia, 38, of Ventura, were convicted by a ...

PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy entered a prison in Paris on Tuesday to begin serving a 5-year sentence for a criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds ...

SERVING TIME A LOT TOUGHER FOR SOME INMATES. MOST IMAGES OF HARD PRISON LABOR ARE FROM THE DISTANT PAST, BUT THIS KIND OF WORK COULD BE THE FUTURE FOR OFFENDERS CONVICTED OF CERTAIN VIOLENT AND ...