Immediately after President Trump’s election victory in 2024, private prison stocks soared and company executives could hardly contain their glee. As Trump’s immigration crackdown has accelerated, so ...

Princeton Students for Prison Education and Reform has submitted a referendum calling for the Council of the Princeton University Community and the Princeton University Investment Company to divest ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and house immigrants detained for living in the U.S. illegally after a nearly yearlong legal fight ...

Arizona Democrat Rep. Yassamin Ansari spoke at a rally outside ICE headquarters in Washington on Tuesday, where she denounced the private contractors running ICE's migrant detention centers: REP.

The legacy of both Trump presidencies remains the radical shift in immigration — a policy framework whose human costs haunt our national conscience. The horrifying images from his first term — ...

A Tennessee judge ruled on Tuesday that a private prison company based there is subject to public records laws, according to The Associated Press. An editor for the monthly magazine Prison Legal News ...

The year 2016 was a wild one for the private prison industry. How do private prisons work, what effect have they had on American criminal justice and what does the future hold for them? As a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The gold-domed Colorado State Capitol is shown in Denver. Photo: Tania C / Unsplash (The Center Square) - Legislators working on ...

State Auditor Shad White says a private prison company must pay $7.4 million to Mississippi for not maintaining enough staff ...

N’Kosi Parris, a 34-year-old from the Virgin Islands housed at Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility, was stabbed to ...

Because no federal law establishes nutritional standards for prison meals, a patchwork regulatory system—comprised of ...