"What was supposed to be one of the most sacred and happiest moments of my life was completely taken from me," an inmate who ...

The number of people in ICE detention has grown, and detention facilities are over capacity. So the government is ...

The Pennsylvania System came up with the idea of solitary confinement. The goal was to have prisoners contemplate their ...

We’ve identified people who are incarcerated in the state have had cellphones smuggled in and used internet services to reach ...

Eric Holcomb wants the people of Michigan City, and their elected representatives, to decide how to repurpose the Indiana State Prison property once the Department of Correction vacates it in a ...

It is also generating immense profits for private prison corporations like the GEO Group and CoreCivic. Trump’s immigrant gulag and the drive to a police state The Trump administration’s ...

Michigan’s prison population has fallen to its lowest level in more than three decades, and state officials say the decline is no accident. The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC ...

On today’s quarterly earnings call, for-profit prison operator GEO Group’s CEO J ... So far this year, GEO Group has entered into a contract with ICE for a 1,800-bed North Lake Facility in Baldwin, ...

A recent audit uncovered significant security lapses at three state prisons, including two in Ionia County, according to a report released by Michigan's Office of the Auditor General. The ...

A $500 million lawsuit filed Monday in Washtenaw County Circuit Court is taking aim at the Michigan Department of Corrections, alleging that prison officials subjected hundreds of incarcerated ...

The county population: 12,000, detention beds: 1,800. Related: Idled Northern Michigan private prison to reopen as ICE ... it then landed out-of-state contracts, briefly housing Californian ...