The Trump administration is expected to use thousands more beds in these facilities as part of its mass deportation effort.

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 ...

Barriers to entry, including public-relations challenges, remain high despite the Trump administration’s embrace of privately ...

The mass deportation bid is spreading fear but hampered by limited ICE detention capacity. Private prisons and local jails ...

Private prison companies in the United States can hardly contain their excitement as the Trump administration moves to revive ...

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 ...

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

The Trump administration's mass deportation plan is expensive — and several companies are trying to get in on the action.