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 ...

This is no small investment, either. Two of the biggest projects will add 400 beds at both the John Montford Unit in Lubbock and the J.W. Hamilton Unit in Bryan. Both of these projects are expected to ...

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 ...

From 1976: Change was in the offing at the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla. After years of trying to create “so-called liberalized prison programs,” tighter security was being implemented ...

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A man from Denton has been sentenced to 78 months in federal prison after committing three armed robberies, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of ...

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 ...