A Texas Senate committee on Wednesday advanced a package of bills aimed at keeping more defendants behind bars while they await trial for violent criminal charges.

Texas lawmakers are discussing five proposed bail reforms, including one to prevent undocumented defendants from posting bail ...

The University of Georgia is more than doubling the number of emergency call stations on campus, UGA President Jere Morehead recently announced.

The Florida Senator defends Trump's decision to end the program for roughly 350,000 Venezuelans in the U.S., saying Biden's ...

People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law. It's the first bill Trump signed in his second term as president.

The first bill President Donald Trump signed in his new term included a provision inspired by a woman killed in Omaha by a ...

Members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation immediately got to work this session preparing legislation to help make ...

The arrests came when federal immigration officials tweeted they began scouring Chicago, Illinois "to enforce U.S. immigration law and preserve public safety and national security by keeping ...

The legislation mandates that those without legal status who are accused of theft and violent crimes be detained by federal ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the first bill of his new administration, and it is named after a ...

The Laken Riley Act, named after a Georgia nursing student killed by an undocumented immigrant, has been signed into law by ...