On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed dozens of executive orders targeting regulation, climate policy and ...

The practice of profiting from prison labor, both inside prisons and outside for private industries is complex and fraught.

Shortly after the election, during CoreCivic’s quarterly earnings conference call with its investors, its President and Chief ...

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.

“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 ...

GEO Group Inc. lost its federal appeals court bid to overturn a $23.2 million jury award over the private prison operator’s ...

A new analysis of America's prison demographics has revealed ... Petrella's study looked at nine states with large private prison populations, including California, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Texas.

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 ...