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

The group’s ads highlight Steyer’s past investments in private prison company CoreCivic (previously named the Corrections ...

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 ...

(Bloomberg) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to shrink its network of more than 200 detention facilities to just 34 government-owned sites, according to local officials briefed this week ...

Alexandria Burrell says her brother, Myron Ward, was overlooked at Wilkinson County Correctional Facility because of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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