A son of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has agreed to plead guilty to drug trafficking in the United States ...

The Trump administration is planning to use more for-profit prisons to house ICE detainees — raising concerns about some well ...

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The Davidson County jail recently failed a state inspection which found it did not meet some minimum standards. Sheriff Daron ...

A federal judge partially granted a preliminary injunction that sought to release funds for the build out of electric vehicle ...

CoreCivic could be one of the biggest beneficiaries of new federal contracts under President Trump. CBS News took a look at safety records at its prisons in Tennessee.

CCA, the nation's largest operator of private prisons with $1.65 billion in revenues last year, has come under criticism nationally from critics ranging from justice reform organizations to ...

Private prisons are the preferred piñata. Fewer than 9% of incarcerated people live under management by a private company, but they've become a boogeyman of reform activists and the scapegoat for ...

CCA becomes the first private prison company to purchase a state facility, buying Ohio’s Lake Erie Correctional Institution as part of a privatization plan proposed by Gov. John Kasich and ...

It was the early 2000s, and the largest prison in Idaho was run by the private company Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA. The state had also started sending prisoners to a private ...