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.

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.

President Trump’s mass deportations of undocumented nannies, gardeners and construction workers with no criminal records is ...

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 ...

ICE is using no-bid contracts, boosting big firms, to get more detention beds The federal government has signed a deal with the private prison firm CoreCivic Corp. to reopen a 1,033-bed prison in ...

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 ...

A Kansas prison town becomes a priority CoreCivic's Leavenworth facility quickly became a priority for ICE and the company because of its central location. Leavenworth, with 37,000 residents, is ...