Powell faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison when he ... Ciavarella Jr. and Michael T. Conahan, who in turn funneled juvenile defendants to two private, for-profit detention centers ...

Biden's decision to commute the 17-year prison sentence of Michael Conahan angered many in northeastern ... of children would fill the beds of the private lockups. The scandal prompted the ...

Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times Supported by By Alexandra Berzon Allison McCann and Hamed Aleaziz Damon Hininger, the chief executive of CoreCivic, which operates private prisons and ...

A contract to reopen a privately owned Newark detention center may be the first in a wave of reopenings of shuttered ...

In 2017, when the detention center was last operational, its private management came under fire for physical and sexual abuse of detainees. To Fernandez, this is a cash grab by the GEO Group ...

On his first day in office, Trump reversed a 2021 executive order that restricted the use of private detention facilities by the Bureau of Prisons and Marshals Service. That order led to the ...

Tennessee prosecutors just concluded their case against a murderer who took inspiration from a fictional serial killer. The killer’s crimes were so heinous that his punishment was just as ...

Prison bars illustration by Rawf8 via iStock for WMNF News. On the first day of his presidency, Donald Trump revoked former President Biden’s executive order phasing out Justice Department contracts ...

President Donald Trump’s reascension to the White House for a second term has invigorated a small and often maligned corner of the real estate investment market. The two major publicly traded ...

A 37-year-old Arizona inmate was found dead Thursday in a private Eloy prison. Guadalupe Barrios, 37, was a year and a half into his four-year sentence when he died at La Palma Correctional Center ...

(The Center Square) – The Virginia House Public Safety Committee voted 21-0 on Friday to advance a bill restricting private management of prisons and jails unless approved by The General Assembly.