GEO Group, now one of the major players in corrections, built a facility in Jena in the late 1990s. It later won a contract to run the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.

But Trump faces several challenges to his mass deportation plans, including insufficient detention capacity. He first tried to detain people at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba ...

We visited Ms. Ozturk this week at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Basile, La., operated by the for-profit company Geo Secure Services, contracted by the federal government.

Subscribe to future newsletters. Leavenworth, Kansas, is a prison town. But there’s one prison local officials aren’t interested in: An immigration detention center that private prison operator ...

IT WAS 8:15 P.M. WHEN OFFICERS AT THE RAYMOND DETENTION CENTER FOUND THE BODY OF ANTHONY TERRELL JOHNSON. >> IT THEY WENT INTO THE CELL. THEY NOTICED THAT HE WAS OBVIOUSLY WHAT APPEARED TO BE A VICTIM ...

Numerous infractions by one of the state’s largest home detention monitoring contractors, discovered during routine audits, prompted Maryland Corrections officials to twice place the firm on a ...

Amidst President Trump's strict immigration policies, Miami's Krome Detention Center faces severe overcrowding, tripling its capacity. Reports detail unsanitary conditions, lack of resources ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The Oklahoma County Detention Center (OCDC) says a 35-year-old inmate was found dead in her cell Saturday morning. Rachel Nalley was reportedly found unresponsive in her ...

Eighty-five more people have filed lawsuits alleging they were sexually abused while in custody in Maryland's juvenile detention system, according to a law firm. The lawsuits, filed by New York ...

MIAMI (AP) — As hundreds of migrants crowded into the Krome Detention Center in Miami on the edge of the Florida Everglades, a palpable fear of an uprising set in among its staff. As President ...

As hundreds of migrants crowded into the Krome Detention Center in Miami on the edge of the Florida Everglades, a palpable fear of an uprising set in among its staff. As President Donald J.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has ordered agencies in his state to boycott work with El Salvador amid the detention fight over Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Abrego Garcia’s detention in a Salvadoran prison ...