H.H. Holmes is believed to be the United States’ first known serial killer. In 1886, Holmes, whose original name was Herman ...

A federal appeals panel ordered officials not to deport a 31-year-old to El Salvador. Minutes later, it happened anyway. The ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to continue collecting tariffs under an emergency powers ...

Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no ...

The latest pardons by President Donald Trump are another example of him flexing his power to bestow clemency on political ...

Police charged a 53-year-old man on Thursday in connection to this week's car-ramming incident at a Liverpool parade that ...

Nayib Bukele rose to near-total control of El Salvador on a tide of support from the very gang he’s credited with defeating.

On June 11, 1962, three prisoners escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison, a former US military base located on a small ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

In your Breakdown: the largest jail breaks in American history, and where New Orleans ranks on the list. We focused on jail ...

Incarcerated Americans experience less humane treatment than the POWs held in the United States during World War II, UVA ...

If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of ...