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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A new immigration detention facility in City is getting ready to open even as members of the public voice opposition. Dozens of people, many of them traveling from out of town, asked the City Council ...

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