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

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

A contract to reopen a privately owned Newark detention center may be the first in a wave of reopenings of shuttered ...

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

Three months after reacting with giddiness that Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” campaign promise would make them boatloads ...

Private prison companies in the United States can hardly contain their excitement as the Trump administration moves to revive ...

According to reports, officers responded to the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center on the 2200 block of Hubbard Road on ...

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, ...

House lawmakers signed off on a revised $37.7 billion budget for next year that includes increases in spending for education, ...

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