Washington state has tried to impose standards on a migrant detention center in Tacoma. Private prison company GEO Group says ...

The Virginia House Public Safety Committee voted 21-0 on Friday to advance a bill restricting private management of prisons ...

The outcome of the appeal, brought by GEO Group, could set important legal precedent on wages for detainees who work in ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

More than 100 immigrants in New England detention centers were transferred to a privately-run ICE detention facility in New ...

The company's CEO forecasts "perhaps the most significant growth in our company's history, over the next several years." ...

One notable change is the rule allowing prisoners to serve their sentences in jails located in their native regions.

President Trump signed an executive order Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border of the United States.

The first phase of the ceasefire calls for the release of 33 hostages and nearly 2,000 prisoners, the return of Palestinians ...

including numbers and locations,” the agency said. Three people familiar with the matter told the AP that federal jails in ...

Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Adams/Franklin, introduced a bill that he says will defend women's rights. The Two-Gender Protection Act would recognize that women are biologically female and men ...