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

North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin has been closed since 2022 following a Biden administration executive order.

The mass deportation bid is spreading fear but hampered by limited ICE detention capacity. Private prisons and local jails ...

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

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

FCI Leavenworth is one of five federal prisons designated to hold ICE detainees as the agency works to expand its ...

The former Blackwater CEO was effectively expelled from the first Trump administration, banned from inside the Pentagon and ...

Bree Derrick will lead the agency after longtime director Josh Tewalt departs for the private sector. Derrick has served as ...

North Carolina lawmakers have agreed to spend another $524 million on still-pressing needs from Hurricane Helene’s historic ...

Damon Hininger, the CEO of CoreCivic, which operates private prisons and immigrant detention centers, opened an investor call last month on a buoyant note. "I've worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and ...

Tennessee houses nearly 29% of its inmates in private prisons, ranking it among the top four states nationally. Since 2000, the number of Tennessee prisoners in private facilities has surged by 95 ...