Mass deportations are being planned by the U.S. government — and that could mean a big boom in business for private prisons.

Private prison companies stand to benefit significantly from a sweeping new plan proposed by the Trump administration to ...

P rivate prison contractors have been around for a long time, but the concept of handing over management of an entire prison ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Tennessee Senate will vote on a bill that aims to punish private prisons for high inmate deaths on Monday. If passed, the bill would require the Tennessee Department ...

WEBBER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The closed private prison near Baldwin will reopen as a federal immigration processing center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the prison company ...

But there's one detention facility that Leavenworth city officials don't want. It's the for-profit prison that would hold ICE ...

A quiet yet seismic shift is occurring in America’s prison cells. Fewer inmates are reading the Bible behind bars, while more are reading the Quran. That’s right. Islam is quickly becoming the ...

A private prison company plans to reopen an idled Northern Michigan prison as a federal immigration processing center. GEO Group announced Thursday, March 20 that it entered into a contract with U ...

LAKE COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) -- After being closed for nearly three years, the North Lake Correctional Facility in Lake County is set to reopen once again, housing inmates through the U.S ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private prison operator GEO Group have brokered an agreement to open a federal immigration processing center immediately in central ...