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 ...

A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention. By Allison McCann Alexandra ...

The city sued in Essex County Superior Court on Tuesday to cease work on a new detention center that ICE plans to open in Newark. The 1,200-bed Delaney Hall facility would be the first new ...

And only a small number of those were put in a detention center. But the juvenile justice veteran thinks it’s time to phase out that option. “The old scared-straight thing … that doesn’t ...

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 ...

The bill would end state and local contracts with federal immigration enforcement and private operators that run detention facilities. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment ...

Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student being held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center, is comparing “some aspects” of his conditions to those who ...