Why I Hate CCA (Corrections Corporation of America)

The Prison Industry Divestment Campaign is hosting a National Day of Solidarity tomorrow, July 1, 2011. The campaign is a call to stand i...

A recent report by the Arizona Republic, which reviewed audits, correspondence, and interviews from the Department of Corrections reveals th...

According to a new report on immigration detention, in ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) custody "medical requests are ignored,...

The GEO Group has just been slapped with a $6.5 million verdict for the wrongful death of a prisoner in their facility in Lawton, Oklahoma. ...

An MTC guard has just been charged with having sexual intercourse with a female prisoner he was supposed to be guarding. This is exactly wh...

As I've reported on before , the GEO Group spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying the Florida legislature over the past few leg...

On July 1st, the Prison Industry Divestment campaign is holding a national day of action in Georgia to call attention to the copycat of SB10...

In a fantastic new report titled "Gaming the System," Paul Ashton at the Justice Policy Institute delves into the seedy world of p...

Rep Lamar Smith (R-TX) recently introduced one of the scarier pieces of legislation I've seen in a while. The "Keep Our Communitie...

New Jersey contracts out its halfway house services to a private, for-profit company called Community Education Centers (CEC). They do this...

The private prison industry, like many other private industries that have interests in politics (think oil, pharmaceuticals, energy companie...