After sixteen years in prison, your favorite rapper's biggest influence walked free this Sunday. GQ’s Frazier Tharpe rolls from the Jets game to the jeweler to the studio as rap’s erstwhile Wave God ...

OAKLAND — In a series of early morning raids on Wednesday, federal and state authorities rounded up eight members of two Sureño gangs whose members have come up time and time again in some of the East ...

Across the country, states are taking back prisons once run by private companies. Oklahoma just bought the Lawton facility for $312 million, ending its last private prison contract. New Mexico is ...

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A woman who ran an illegal brothel in southwest Houston faces life in federal prison, capping a yearslong court case surrounding a sex trafficking scheme. Maria Angelica Moreno-Reyna, also known as ...

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said that the prison system is “creating monsters” after he was released from prison last week. “We are creating an environment of failure, so people are prone to ...

Razor wire fencing surrounds the Idaho Department of Correction’s Idaho Maximum Security Institution, in Kuna. Sarah A. Miller Sarah A. Miller for ProPublica A Boise attorney resigned her law license ...

Georgia is expanding its new gang prosecution unit into Savannah with new hires and over $268,000 in funding. A local defense attorney argues that the state's gang laws do not reduce crime but instead ...

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo accepted the resignations of three top security officials Wednesday as the fallout from Sunday’s admission that 20 gang members had escaped from ...

Twenty convicted members of the Barrio 18 gang escaped from a maximum-security prison in Guatemala over the weekend, triggering urgent calls from U.S. officials for authorities to recapture them. The ...