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

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

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.

After losing his son in a private prison, Tim Leeper fought for reform, and Tennessee lawmakers listened. Now, private prisons with high death rates will face consequences.

CoreCivic has reached an agreement with ICE to convert its California City facility into federal immigrant detention.

In 2022, the Bureau of Prisons ended its contracts with private prisons. However, the Biden administration and the Trump administration have used private prison companies like GEO Group to house ...

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 ...

A private prison facility in eastern Kern County may reopen as a federal immigration processing center if CoreCivic and the ...

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

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.

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

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 ...