The year 2016 was a wild one for the private prison industry. How do private prisons work, what effect have they had on American criminal justice and what does the future hold for them? As a ...

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 ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — Private prison operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump pushes for mass deportations, with some facilities nabbing ...

TULSA, Okla. — In what is being called a “major milestone" by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, the DOC takes over operations of the last remaining private prison in the state. For-profit ...

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 ...

It’s certainly a niche asset class. But one that’s rapidly expanding. The ongoing, record-breaking expansion of the nation’s immigrant detention capacity — due to an expedited mass deportation push ...

HARTSVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A new Tennessee law will require private prisons with high death rates to reduce their inmate population, a measure that gained unanimous support from lawmakers after a ...

In recent years, exposure to private prisons has become a concern to values-based investors seeking to exclude such securities from their portfolios. Aside from making direct purchases of these ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – There is a possibility that two of the three private prisons owned by CoreCivic could open soon and house detained immigrants. The reporting came first from Oklahoma Watch, ...

This month, the South Australian government extended a contract with a private firm to manage a men’s prison in Adelaide for another five years, despite a damning report about its operations. The ...