The Trump administration is planning to use more for-profit prisons to house ICE detainees — raising concerns about some well ...

Supporters of CoreCivic's plan to bring immigrants to Leavenworth point to the 300 jobs and more than $1 million the company ...

After losing his son in a private prison, Tim Leeper fought for reform, and Tennessee lawmakers listened. Now, private ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year ...

With ICE crackdowns on the rise, private prisons are booming businesses The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown means a huge influx of federal dollars to two major private prison companies.

CoreCivic could be one of the biggest beneficiaries of new federal contracts under President Trump. CBS News took a look at safety records at its prisons in Tennessee.

Private prisons emerged in the mid-1980s. Their first contracts were in immigration detention, a space they continue to dominate today. But soon after, they broke into the much larger correctional ...

CoreCivic and GEO Group receive multi-million dollar no-bid contracts to reactivate penitentiary centers with a history of ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: Private prisons operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump pushes for mass ...

Private prison operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump pushes for mass deportations, with some facilities nabbing lucrative ...

From idle prisons to a ‘gold rush’ ICE declared a national emergency on the U.S. border with Mexico as part of its justification for authorizing nine five-year contracts for a combined 10,312 ...