The Trump administration is expected to use thousands more beds in these facilities as part of its mass deportation effort.

Barriers to entry, including public-relations challenges, remain high despite the Trump administration’s embrace of privately ...

There’s a private interest behind the detention and the incarceration of our community,” said an activist protesting the ...

Three months after reacting with giddiness that Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” campaign promise would make them boatloads ...

A contract to reopen a privately owned Newark detention center may be the first in a wave of reopenings of shuttered ...

Tennessee tied Arizona for states with the highest percentage of prisoners in private institutions. Here's how they compare to other states.

Local residents have voiced opposition for a number of reasons, including the shuttered prison’s history of violence and ...

Wellpath, one of the largest prison medical contractors, filed for bankruptcy as it faces lawsuits for alleged neglect and misconduct.

A private prison company has signed an agreement to reopen an immigrant detention facility in Texas that previously held families with children for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the ...