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 ...

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

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

Re: “Texas Taking Back Privately Run Prisons — Few of the promised savings and benefits actually panned out,” March 25 editorial. This editorial asserts that partnering with the private ...

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 jails — most of which are operated by private prison companies — hold thousands of people each year. More than 7,000 people are jailed in Louisiana’s immigration facilities. Texas ...

More corruption. Private prisons and Medicare Advantage plans are two examples. Both developed from the idea that as businesses, they would be more efficient and better run than the public versions.