The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year ...

The federal government is getting out of the private prison business. The U.S. Department of Justice said this summer that it would phase out its practice of outsourcing some inmates. Currently ...

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

Private prisons emerged in the mid-1980s. Their first contracts were in immigration detention, a space they continue to dominate today. But soon after, they broke into the much larger correctional ...

Private prison and detention contractor CoreCivic has reached an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

In fact, this scenario is the reality in almost every courtroom in America.Private prisons exist to make profits and have become a multi-billion-dollarindustry.

As advocates argue that private prisons provide the same quality while saving taxpayer money, one question looms: are private prisons helpful or harmful to the US? Private prisons began to grow in ...

Private prisons and detention-services providers are getting ready to cash in on the expected largest domestic deportation operation in U.S. history.

CoreCivic and Geo Group push to reopen idle prisons amid Trump’s mass deportation plan, securing no-bid ICE contracts despite local resistance.

Beginning in the 1980s, federal budgetary constraints and increasing incarceration rates moved the U.S. government to issue its first contracts with the private prison industry. This action fired ...

Its longtime lender, Bank of America, dropped it as a client in 2019 during a retreat from banking private prisons, gun manufacturers, coal miners, and other industries then out of political favor.

Imagine you are the defendant in a Vermont courtroom where the police witnesses, the prosecutor, the judge, and your lawyer all own stock in corporations that make more money when people are convicted ...