Nation Dec 20 Watch 6:38 For-profit prisons reap business benefit from Trump’s immigration stance A new investigation reveals the rapid growth of for-profit prisons being used to house immigrants. While the phenomenon has generated tremendous revenue for the industry, it has also resulted in hundreds of cases of alleged abuse and mistreatment in those…
Nation Oct 11 California to end its use of for-profit prisons, including for immigrant detention California will ban the use of for-profit, private detention facilities, including those under contract to the federal government to hold immigrants awaiting deportation hearings. By Don Thompson, Amy Taxin, Associated Press