The Salt Lake County Council voted Tuesday to impose a sales tax increase that will help expand the county's jail system.

South Dakota's plan to build an $825 million men's prison complex in rural Lincoln County has sparked clashes of opinion.

South Dakota’s plan to build an $825 million men’s prison complex in rural Lincoln County has sparked clashes of opinion not ...

A pair of bills moving forward would also change when injunctions can pause a law challenged on its constitutionaly, and who ...

A committee has approved a bill that would mandate jail time for some immigrants who are in the country illegally and are ...

State Senator Geraldine Thompson, left, listens to Ocoee resident, Hope Bellamy, right, as he pitches the ideas on bills to watch curated by Equal Ground, a Civil Rights Group at the State Capitol in ...

The Utah House passed HB252, regulating transgender inmates, by a 60-14 vote. The bill mandates housing based on biological ...

All are alleged members of the Islamic State group, captured during the final days of the extremists’ so-called caliphate declared in large parts of Iraq and Syria. The Gweiran Prison ...

First, there is currently no law in Utah that prohibits juvenile detention center staff from engaging in a sexual relationship with a person in juvenile custody up to a certain age. A person can be in ...

A Lincoln man who went to prison for a motor vehicle homicide in 2020 is going back to prison — this time for 25 to 45 years — for being in possession of a firearm during a drug violation.

And now a prison expert has said Khalife's new life in prison will be closely guarded. "Daniel Khalife's life in prison is set to be far more restrictive," Keith Hudon explained. The Prison Reform ...