For years, I reported on one man’s wrongful incarceration—and ignored the stories of a grieving family who thought they had ...

The Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband is set to be sentenced in federal ...

Federal authorities Monday announced a life sentence for the Mexican drug lord known as El Mayo years after putting away his ...

A man who threatened a federal agent with “lights out” avoided prison Monday. In June 2025, when U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

Can “El Mayo” avoid the same supermax fate as his former business partner “El Chapo”? Will renewed US bounties bring down the last two fugitive Chapitos? And what do Colombia’s latest coca figures ...

Social Security provides benefits for about 54 million retirees and their family members. The size of your monthly Social Security check depends on your lifetime earnings, when you claim benefits and ...

About $43 million in planned construction is set to make room for hundreds of more people in Texas—behind bars.  Texas leads the nation in prison population growth, CW33 reported in July 2025, and as ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — The Federal Bureau of Prisons is closing the low-security unit at the Federal Correctional Complex in Beaumont as part of a nationwide effort to address aging facilities, staffing ...

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino announced plans to build a new maximum-security prison for gang leaders, placing Panama more firmly inside a regional shift toward hardline prison policies ...

The agency pointed to crumbling infrastructure, chronic staffing shortages and budget shortfalls as it moved to cut costs. By Chris Cameron Reporting from Washington See more of our coverage in your ...

Three federal prison facilities in Texas and three in other states will close, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons. The agency made the announcements on Wednesday ...

Costa Rica will require inmates at its new maximum-security prison to wear orange uniforms, bringing back a practice the country has not used in its prison system since the 1970s and adding another ...