Bobby Gumpright was in the throws of addiction 25 years ago when he fabricated a story that he had been robbed at gunpoint by ...

State budget includes money to fix state prison system suffering from violence, massive understaffing and security lapses.

In an interview with the BBC this week, Hopkins described life at Alcatraz, where he made friends with gangsters and once ...

U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter became the first Republican to challenge Sen. Jon Ossoff in 2026. Who else might join the race?

Since North Carolina passed a "bathroom" law in 2016, the number of bills has grown and Republicans have used the issue in ...

Take a look a the most infamous inmates at Alcatraz as President Donald Trump is looking to reopen the prison off the coast ...

Georgia’s new $37.7 billion state budget increases funding for key programs such as education, prisons, and Medicaid.

Two prison corporations and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have moved quickly to prepare facilities to hold immigrants in ...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law prohibiting the use of state funds for “sex reassignment surgeries,” hormone replacement ...

The Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic ...

A year later, Kemp signed a law that banned gender-affirming surgeries for those younger than 18. And this year, House Speaker Jon Burns and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones made outlawing transgender girls in ...