Us Prison Population

Nearly half of all American adults have an immediate family member who has experienced incarceration, according to a new study published Thursday that spotlights the extent of mass imprisonment in the United States. The report comes as President Donald Trump has given his backing to a bipartisan bill aimed at reforming sentences imposed for drug of...

The Pentagon announced that four more inmates were transferred out of the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, marking the final such transfer under President Barack Obama and leaving the facility's population at 41.

The population of American prisons is likely to rise for the first time in nearly a decade with President-elect Donald Trump's promise to detain and deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally and his selection of tough-on-crime Sen. Jeff Sessions to the nation's highest law enforcement post.

Here is a breakdown of the 76 detainees still held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

More than half of US federal prison inmates are in jail for drug trafficking, with the harshest sentences going to crack dealers, most of them African Americans, a study found Tuesday.

President Barack Obama meets with top police officials and legal experts Thursday in a push to end "unnecessary incarceration" in a country where overpopulated prisons house 2.2 million people.

A group of 130 police chiefs, prosecutors and sheriffs from around the United States on Wednesday called for reforms that would to reduce the US prison population.

Nearly half of all American adults have an immediate family member who has experienced incarceration, according to a new study published Thursday that spotlights the extent of mass imprisonment in the United States. The report comes as President Donald Trump has given his backing to a bipartisan bill aimed at reforming sentences imposed for drug of...

The Pentagon announced that four more inmates were transferred out of the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, marking the final such transfer under President Barack Obama and leaving the facility's population at 41.

The population of American prisons is likely to rise for the first time in nearly a decade with President-elect Donald Trump's promise to detain and deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally and his selection of tough-on-crime Sen. Jeff Sessions to the nation's highest law enforcement post.

Here is a breakdown of the 76 detainees still held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

More than half of US federal prison inmates are in jail for drug trafficking, with the harshest sentences going to crack dealers, most of them African Americans, a study found Tuesday.

President Barack Obama meets with top police officials and legal experts Thursday in a push to end "unnecessary incarceration" in a country where overpopulated prisons house 2.2 million people.

A group of 130 police chiefs, prosecutors and sheriffs from around the United States on Wednesday called for reforms that would to reduce the US prison population.