After running a recent blog post on local organizations celebrating former Senator Dennis DeConcini’s departure from the Corrections Corporation of America board of directors, we heard from a CCA ...

Today, Monday, May 13, from 4 to 5 p.m. in front of the DeConcini Federal Courthouse, 405 W. Congress, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) will hold a special birthday uncelebration for the ...

It was troubling, Jazzalyn Livingston said. University of California officials said they were committed to enrolling more black students like her, but at the same time they were investing millions in ...

For years, activists have urged companies, pensions, and universities to divest from private prisons—with only limited success. But yesterday, when stocks of the two biggest private prison companies ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The largest private prison company in America paid $260,000 to a group of shift supervisors in Kentucky to settle claims that they were denied overtime, according to an ...

On March 11, a 39-year-old man held in detention at the Stewart Detention Center, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in southwest Georgia, died at a hospital in Columbus. To ...

The nation's largest private prison company is shifting its focus toward helping release more inmates and keep them out—a reaction, company officials say, to changing policies around the country on ...