The Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency is intensifying its plans to detain immigrants in private prisons by using $45 billion dollars recently allocated by Congress. ICE is now the ...

Across the country, states are taking back prisons once run by private companies. Oklahoma just bought the Lawton facility for $312 million, ending its last private prison contract. New Mexico is ...

Scripps News has conducted an in-depth investigation into private jails on the East Coast, focusing on the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania, where a Chinese immigrant tragically took ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal officials have been searching for a place to expand immigrant detention in Minnesota, and the shuttered ...

JACKSON, Miss. — On the witness stand and under pressure, Frank Shaw, the warden of the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, could not guarantee that the prison was capable of performing its most ...

The largest private prison company in America is changing its name in an attempt to overhaul a business that has been dogged by accusations of inmate abuse and violence. Corrections Corporation of ...

As the government and law enforcement brace for the sweeping ramifications of President-elect Donald Trump's pledge to deport what could be millions of undocumented immigrants from the United States, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a for-profit immigrant prison in Colorado, prisoners say they were threatened with solitary confinement if they refused to work ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. It’s been a good year for the corporate owner of a shuttered North Carolina prison that may reopen to aid the Trump administration’s ...

Michael Leatherwood, an inmate in a private prison in Oklahoma, is an exception. He’s gotten notably further with his lawsuit, which alleges that inmates at his prison, the Lawton Correctional ...

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