On June 20, nearly three weeks into the Atlantic hurricane season, Florida disaster-management officials assembled a group of ...

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.

The USA has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Shelves of books and reams of media exposés have revealed the inhumanity of American jails, prisons, and immigration detention ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A judge has halted CoreCivic, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered facility that the private prison operator now calls the Midwest ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. On an investor call, executives at one of the largest private prison companies in the United States, CoreCivic, said that “it wouldn’t surprise us” if the GOP ...

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 ...