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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 ...

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 ...

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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