But in records obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, private prison company proposals in response to a request for ...

Activists continue to rally against the opening of a third immigration detention center in Kern County, calling on local officials to prevent the facility from opening. Standing under pop-up tents in ...

A fire at Eloy Detention Center sparked panic and exposed, critics say, systemic failures and growing concerns over detainee ...

The $45 billion for immigration detention in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" represented a long-sought win for private prisons.

It was Super Bowl Sunday in 1984 when a roadside motel in Houston closed its doors to 87 immigrants who lacked documentation.

To put this in perspective, it’s more than the combined budgets of the FBI (estimated at $11 billion a year) and the CIA (estimated at $15 billion a year.) In effect, the Trump administration will now ...

Two former prison facilities in Kern County could soon augment the federal government’s immigrant detention capacity as the Trump Administration looks to ramp up its mass deportation campaign.

A recent court ruling in New Jersey allows private immigrant detention centers to continue, sparking protests from advocates ...

The 2021 law had prohibited the state and local governments from entering into, renewing, or extending contracts with private companies to detain people for civil immigration violations.

Responding to pleas from immigrants' rights advocates, county officials will specify in an RFP that the jail cannot be used to house detainees ...

President Trump says he wants to hire 10,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and 3,000 Border Patrol agents. The ...

Many of these companies have sordid histories that include alleged sexual abuse and creating harmful living conditions.