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

Beginning in the 1980s, federal budgetary constraints and increasing incarceration rates moved the U.S. government to issue its first contracts with the private prison industry. This action fired off ...

We’re talking about a major, major industry in our society today,” activist and writer Bianca Tylek told a group of about 20 ...

On an investor call, executives at one of the largest private prison companies in the United States, CoreCivic, said that “it wouldn’t surprise us” if the GOP-controlled Congress and administration ...

Long overloaded with too many inmates and not enough space to hold them, the state has turned to prisons as far off as Mississippi. Officials cite limited options; inmates’ lawyers and families say ...

In recent years, exposure to private prisons has become a concern to values-based investors seeking to exclude such securities from their portfolios. Aside from making direct purchases of these ...

Trousdale Turner Correctional Center operated by CoreCivic is seen Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in Hartsville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles ...

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As the Trump administration bulks up its mass deportation machine, officials have relied on a network of for-profit prison companies that run the overwhelming majority of America’s immigration ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover criminal justice, entrepreneurship, and offbeat lawsuits. A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a New Jersey law ...

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.