Leavenworth, Kan., was forged by the corrections industry, but residents are divided over plans for a privately operated ...

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

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

Through threats and incentives, the administration conscripted local jails, federal prisons and private companies to detain ...

To put this in perspective, it's more than the combined budgets of the FBI (estimated at $11 billion a year) and the CIA ...

The area’s politics and roots as a prison town might have been expected to help CoreCivic. Trump carried its county by more than 20 percentage points in each of his three campaigns for president.

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 ...

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

The federal government has signed a deal with the private prison firm CoreCivic Corp. to reopen a 1,033-bed prison in Leavenworth as part of a surge of contracts U.S. Immigration and Customs ...