As long as they don’t detain anybody, they can hire as many people as they like,” said Leavenworth City Manager Scott ...

Officials in a rural Tennessee town approved turning a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a ...

Legal complaints cite civil rights violations, understaffing and mismanagement at facilities run by the massive ...

Officials in the small West Tennessee town of Mason on Tuesday approved a contract with private prison corporation CoreCivic ...

The for-profit prison company argued in court that Leavenworth is illegally obstructing President Trump’s immigration policy ...

Legal complaints cite civil rights violations, understaffing and mismanagement at facilities run by the massive ...

Private prison giants now hold 90 percent of detained immigrants and aim to triple capacity for $1.5 billion in revenue.

A closed prison in Tennessee has been approved as a new detention facility for illegal immigrants arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Private prison company CoreCivic is accused of failing to protect an inmate who was allegedly killed by his cellmate the day ...

Mason approves agreements to convert a former prison into an immigration detention facility, drawing criticism from residents over immigrant treatment and CoreCivic’s track record in Tennessee.

CoreCivic’s history in Mason is not good, according to residents within the town and those who live in neighboring ...

Shares of major private prison operators GEO Group and CoreCivic are trading higher Friday afternoon. The rally follows a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Thursday.