Three prison guards were held hostage by inmates inside a jail with police swarming in to prevent a jail break after a riot. ...

WSMV in Nashville confirmed the two guards at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Hartsville, Tennessee were held hostage ...

CoreCivic, the company that runs the prison, says several inmates refused to return to their assigned housing unit.

As the United States ramps up immigration enforcement, several stocks are poised to benefit from the government crackdown.

Democrat Martin Heinrich said his staff visited the Torrance County Detention Facility in late May, two weeks after Bloomberg ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight) – The South Dakota Department of Corrections has replaced the penitentiary ...

Newly-released records show Brentwood-based CoreCivic Inc. and its affiliate CoreCivic TRS LLC & Subs each received refunds of more than $10,000 for three years of tax rebates after lawmakers approved ...

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The city of Leavenworth won a temporary restraining order Wednesday barring CoreCivic from placing ICE detainees in its ...

Earlier this week, residents in Torrance were scrambling to find out what happened to 9-year-old Martir Garcia Lara, a fourth ...

A judge in Kansas issued a Wednesday ruling determining that a private prison operator could not use its shuttered facility to house detainees from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Tom Homan, serving as Trump's "border czar," told CNN in December he anticipates up to 100,000 migrants could be detained at ...