The justices denied GEO Group’s bid to toss out a lawsuit claiming prisoners in Colorado were illegally forced to work.

Inquest staff recommendations of not-to-be-missed decarceral books from 2025.

Carceral facilities serve bad food as a way to cut costs. Providing this inhumane service is now a hugely profitable sector of Wall Street.

Worth Rises campaign to stop corporations from enabling Alabama's nitrogen gas execution protocol.

Under Biden, the FCC made unprecedented progress toward ending price gouging for prison phone calls. Tomorrow, Trump’s FCC is expected to undo it all.

Under Biden, the FCC made unprecedented progress toward ending price gouging for prison phone calls. Tomorrow, Trump’s FCC is expected to undo it all.

Prisoners don’t get to choose their healthcare provider. With no alternatives, it is quite perverse that the only avenue of treatment available to them is one that makes them sicker.

More U.S. federal funds are to be spent on immigration enforcement and ICE as part of Trump's crackdown

When it comes to for-profit, private corporate incarceration of immigrants, making lots of money is like drinking salt water, the more they drink, the thirstier they get. Roman proverbs say that the m...

In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country.  Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect […]

Officials in the small West Tennessee town of Mason on Tuesday approved a contract with private prison corporation CoreCivic to operate the former West Tennessee Detention Facility as an immigration d...

Bianca Tylek has raised concerns about the expansion of private prison corporations profiting from the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies, which has led to longer detention period...

Oklahoma’s $74 million deal to privatize food service in state prisons was canceled because the selected vendor failed to meet nutritional standards. Aramark, the sole competing bidder, alleged that T...

Black immigrant families are being left in the dark as ICE moves loved ones from state to state.

PROVINCETOWN — When Barnstable County Sheriff Donna Buckley announced her campaign for that office in March 2022, she told the Independent that “the sheriff’s responsibility is not to do law […]

Culture, control, and empire

Geo Group extends executive chairman contract, raises bonuses for top officers

A flood of litigation fighting impending FCC regulations has been filed by multiple private contractors and more than a dozen states.

The FCC and allies will contend with a 14-state coalition opposing the rule.

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois

The legislation gives federal regulators greater authority to limit the costs of prison phone calls. Though rates differ by state, calls from prison cost on average $5 for a 30-minute phone call.