America’s newest attorney general can thank rising Florida real estate values, a few years of lobbying and a wealthy husband for her increasing fortune.

When the North Lake Correctional Facility was open, it was Lake County's biggest employer. Even closed, it's the county's ...

Tennessee tied Arizona for states with the highest percentage of prisoners in private institutions. Here's how they compare to other states.

Tennessee houses nearly 29% of its inmates in private prisons, ranking it among the top four states nationally. Since 2000, the number of Tennessee prisoners in private facilities has surged by 95 ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in her House speech regarding the bill on Jan. 22, 2025. Ocasio-Cortez also acknowledged the potential benefits for-profit private prisons could reap from the law. According ...

Families are being uprooted time and again, forced to leave everything behind as they flee for safety. Many of those ...

On top of having to tap the National Guard to staff prisons for regular inmates, a newly passed immigration law is exploring the option of using Florida prisons to detain undocumented immigrants ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a private prison company a 15-year contract worth $1 billion to detain ...

Advocates for air-conditioning in Florida prisons are seeking funding in the state budget for a pilot program after legislation failed. The pilot program would install air-conditioning in prisons ...

"A lot of our prisoners are looking to educate themselves, they're looking to better themselves," Open Books volunteer Renee Nicholas said.