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

There’s a private interest behind the detention and the incarceration of our community,” said an activist protesting the ...

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

The Trump administration's mass deportation plan is expensive — and several companies are trying to get in on the action.

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.

More for education: The House adds $98.4 million to Kemp’s proposed K-12 education budget. Much of the money would go to establish grant programs for student mental health and other support services, ...

Local residents have voiced opposition for a number of reasons, including the shuttered prison’s history of violence and ...

A private prison company says it will reopen an immigrant detention ... its own processing centers and local prisons and jails — entered this year with zero facilities geared toward families, who last ...

Instead, a study group is seeking ways to allow inmates live in "prisons without walls" and work at private companies. The planned program is aimed at helping them reintegrate into society with ...

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 ...