Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of sending U.S. citizens convicted of crimes to prisons in El Salvador, but experts say there is no legal way to do that.

For years, families have complained of cruelty from the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) when their incarcerated loved ones ...

Washington library programs are facing potentially “devastating consequences” after receiving notification last week that federal funding has been eliminated for programs like libraries at state ...

Men deported by the United States to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison are living in “the same” conditions as convicted gangsters, prison director Belarmino García said on Tuesday, during an ...

A 43-year-old man serving a 17.5-year sentence for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise died in southern ...

A federal judge, in a scathing decision on Sunday, said the Trump administration had no legal grounds to arrest, detain, and ...

Neither the United States nor El Salvador have told anyone why he was returned to the very country to which he cannot return, ...

Donald Trump is cementing a partnership with President Nayib Bukele, whose assault on civil rights is being mirrored in the U ...

Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S.

James Bickerton is a Newsweek U.S. News reporter based in London, U.K. His focus is on covering news and politics in Texas, as well as other general news across the United States. James joined ...

Advocates for cooling Texas prisons construct a makeshift cell before a rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in Austin, Texas. The group is called for an emergency ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air ...