The country's largest private prison companies are reporting significant profits amid an aggressive push by the Trump administration to increase immigration arrests and detentions. During earnings ...

The Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency is intensifying its plans to detain immigrants in private prisons by using $45 billion dollars recently allocated by Congress. ICE is now the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger will step down after serving as head of the Brentwood-based private prison giant since 2009. The ...

Since Donald Trump retook office, his administration has moved forward with promises to expand the surveillance, detention, and deportation of immigrants, an operation that heavily relies on private ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against a private prison company facing a lawsuit alleging migrant detainees were forced to work for only $1 per day.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Private prisons emerged in the mid-1980s. Their first contracts were in immigration detention, a space they continue to dominate ...

When it comes to for-profit, private corporate incarceration of immigrants, making lots of money is like drinking salt water, the more they drink, the thirstier they get. Roman proverbs say that the ...

Immediately after President Trump’s election victory in 2024, private prison stocks soared and company executives could hardly contain their glee. As Trump’s immigration crackdown has accelerated, so ...

The legacy of both Trump presidencies remains the radical shift in immigration — a policy framework whose human costs haunt our national conscience. The horrifying images from his first term — ...

This article is published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. On an August 7 earnings call, Damon Hininger, the CEO of CoreCivic, announced that the country’s largest private ...

Should Oklahoma welcome privately operated ICE detention centers in the state? Oklahoma has a history of privately owned and operated prisons, and none of it is good. Making profits from human ...