The Social Security Fairness Act, a bill to undo WEP and GPO, has enough support to force a floor vote. But that’s unlikely to happen until at least November.

Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) introduced the Comprehensive Accountability and Responsibility to End Homelessness (CARE) Act, a bill which directs the U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) ...

U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) have introduced the Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act, a ...

Sen. Tim Scott and several Republican colleagues have introduced a new bill to increase congressional oversight of federal ...

The new REINS Act improves on previous proposals, requiring Congress to approve costly regulations and guidance, restoring ...

“Our legislation would reinvest federal money in local public housing authorities to fund the backlog of much-needed repairs.

The ACLU of Indiana has argued that Indiana's law banning gender-affirming surgery for transgender inmates violates the law.

Senate Republicans, for the second time this year, blocked a bill to mandate health insurance coverage of fertility ...

A California state senator wrote a bill to allow media to have better ... horrible ‘Rape Club,’ the situation in the Dublin federal prison, where there was just rampant staff-on-inmate sexual ...

allow for sentencing review boards or courts to re-evaluate a person’s sentence after they’ve served a significant period of time in prison. At a hearing in late August, the Interim Judiciary ...

The situation in the 240 custodial centres spread across the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory are more or less similar. Prisons are congested and facilities are overstretched. Part of the ...

The Premier and Home Secretary Jack Straw plan to overhaul the criminal justice system with extra prison places, longer sentences for some offenders and programmes to keep a closer eye on exprisoners.