After being sued for violating state-level human trafficking laws, the nation’s largest private prison company is pushing the ...

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 ...

A private prison company announced three contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars last week that will boost the Trump administration’s capacity to hold immigrants in detention centers across ...

A third warden in one year is now in charge of Tennessee's largest and most scrutinized prison, inheriting a federal investigation and numerous challenges, from understaffing to violence.

Long overloaded with too many inmates, the state has turned to prisons as far off as Mississippi. Officials cite limited ...

In “Morals Before Profit,” the Weekly wrote about local immigrant rights groups organizing to pressure former U.S. Senator Dennis DeConcini to resign from the board of Corrections Corporation of ...

Arizona faith leaders sent Gov. Jan Brewer a letter yesterday telling her to say no to the private prison industry. You can read the letter here AZ_Faith_community__letter_against_private_prisons.pdf.

A proposal to close a state prison in Windsor would severely hamper the Department of Corrections’ plan to end a controversial program that ships hundreds of inmates to out-of-state facilities, DOC ...

(NewsNation) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to 50 months behind bars by a federal judge Friday, after being convicted on a pair of prostitution-related charges three months ago but escaping ...