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Tennessee’s private prisons could see a reduction in their inmate populations if death rates in the facilities continue to ...

Rome: Italy has opened its first-ever sex room for prisoners on Friday. The inaugural visit took place in a prison in the ...

The GEO Group seeks to reopen Delaney Hall in Newark as a detention center Private prison companies like Florida-based GEO Group and Tennessee-based CoreCivic, which contributed more than $1 ...

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Let's consider prisons. A federal prison has to follow federal laws. It has thresholds for staffing and must offer prisoners certain programs and access. A private prison must do what it is ...

In fact, the law wouldn’t necessarily mean that private prisons would ever be used to house existing Kansas prisoners. But it would allow for the industry to set up shop and begin housing out-of ...

The Tennessee Senate will vote on a bill that aims to punish private prisons for high inmate deaths on Monday. If passed, the bill would require the Tennessee Department of Corrections to reduce 10% ...

Lawmakers originally agreed to allow private companies to manage some prisons in the late 1980s. Two trends helped drive that decision. The first was severe overcrowding, which eventually prompted ...

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