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.

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 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.

While Democratic lawmakers have been warning about the consequences of using the private-prison operator for several years, ... when half of America wants to get rid of it.

Private prison operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump ...

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 ...

The Bureau of Prisons’ new deputy director’s past incarceration has drawn outrage from some officers — and support from ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — A judge on Wednesday barred a major U.S. private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center unless ...