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Top private prison companies see profits amid administration's immigration crackdown

The country's largest private prison companies are reporting significant profits amid an aggressive push by the Trump ...

One of three convicted of Bay Area bank robberies sentenced to federal prison

One of three Bay Area defendants convicted earlier this year in federal court for a series of bank robberies across the Bay ...

Sextortion scams leading to teen suicide would result in long prison sentences under proposed Alabama law

Manslaughter is a Class B felony, punishable by two to 20 years in prison. Bolton’s bill would make a new category of ...

CT nurse who took drugs home to use them gets prison. She tried to hide it by refilling vials.

A New York woman was sentenced to five months in prison for tampering with vials of hydromorphone and fentanyl at a surgical ...

What will happen to California prison site if it closes in 2026?

Norco’s would be the fifth California prison to close during Gov. Gavin Newsom ’s time in office, which started in 2018. The ...

Oregon man who filmed, shared abuse of toddler sentenced to 42 years in prison

An Albany man was sentenced Tuesday to 42 years in federal prison for sexually abusing a toddler, recording the abuse and ...

Man who fired a shotgun outside a New York synagogue gets 10 years in prison

A man who fired a shotgun outside a New York synagogue shortly after the Israel-Hamas war began has been sentenced to 10 ...

Retired Mass. state trooper gets 3 months in prison for role in commercial driver’s license scheme

Calvin Butner was one of six men charged in a conspiracy that prosecutors say included bribery, lasted nearly four years, and ...

With prison system in crisis, NBC obtains new footage of violence against NY prisoner

In an exclusive investigation airing on Hallie Jackson Now, NBC News' Dan Slepian reveals never-before-seen footage of prison ...

Arkansas authorities say additional employees disciplined at prison where ex-police chief escaped

Additional employees at an Arkansas prison have been disciplined for not following procedures at a prison where an inmate ...

Key witness confesses to woman’s 1998 murder for which Minnesota man is serving life in prison

The conviction and life prison sentence of a man for the vicious murder of an elderly woman in her Minneapolis apartment ...