The group’s ads highlight Steyer’s past investments in private prison company CoreCivic (previously named the Corrections ...

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 ...

Because no federal law establishes nutritional standards for prison meals, a patchwork regulatory system—comprised of ...

A Tennessee judge ruled on Tuesday that a private prison company based there is subject to public records laws, according to The Associated Press. An editor for the monthly magazine Prison Legal News ...

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 ...

Princeton Students for Prison Education and Reform has submitted a referendum calling for the Council of the Princeton University Community and the Princeton University Investment Company to divest ...

The for-profit facility in Arizona is being used to help with overcrowding.

PHOENIX — State lawmakers refused Wednesday to limit the kind of criminals who can be housed in private prisons in Arizona. On a 10-8 vote, the Senate rejected a proposal by Sen. Debbie McCune Davis ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and house immigrants detained for living in the U.S. illegally after a nearly yearlong legal fight ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The gold-domed Colorado State Capitol is shown in Denver. Photo: Tania C / Unsplash (The Center Square) - Legislators working on ...