Private prisons and detention-services providers are getting ready to cash in on the expected largest domestic deportation ...

In the US, prisons are big business. Accounting for 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated, private companies are profiting from the country’s tough stance on crime Overcrowding in US state prisons.

Private prisons and other companies that provide detention services are getting ready to cash in on what President-elect Donald Trump has billed as “the largest domestic deportation operation in ...

During his first term, Trump expressed strong support for private prisons, leading to a surge in publicly traded stocks of private prison companies following the November election. Many speculate ...

Meanwhile, waves of men and women, locked up during the height of the war on drugs and mandatory minimum sentences, are now growing old behind bars, often with chronic health conditions such as HIV.

ICE agents in Colorado are using a smartwatch manufactured by private prison giant GEO Group to surveil undocumented immigrants. The insidious ways building private prisons creates more prisoners ...

“This is, to us, an unprecedented opportunity,” George Zoley, executive chairman of the GEO Group, a private prison company, told investors on an earnings call days after the electio ...

One study, published in Plos One, found that summertime mortality rates in US state and private prisons rose by 5.2% for every 10F increase in temperature above historical averages. Of the 100 ...

The fight at the Beaumont prison in Texas sparked fears of retaliatory violence at other facilities All federal prisons in the US have been placed on lockdown after a gang fight left two inmates ...