The ABC7 I-Team traveled to what has been labeled the largest immigration detention center in the Midwest. Civil rights and ...

The federal government has signed a deal with the private prison firm CoreCivic Corp. to reopen a 1,033-bed prison in ...

This may not be primarily a Midwestern story, but undocumented and legal immigrants live throughout the U.S. In pockets of the Midwest, the conflicts over them are intense.

CoreCivic and Geo Group push to reopen idle prisons amid Trump’s mass deportation plan, securing no-bid ICE contracts despite local resistance.

Private prison operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump ...

Only three of the nine potential facilities were listed in ICE’s document: Leavenworth, a 2,560-bed CoreCivic-owned facility in California City, California, and an 1,800-bed Geo-owned prison in ...

The prison reopened in 2009 after GEO Group expanded it from 500 to 1,800 beds. It was used, at either partial or full capacity, to lock up out-of-state prisoners until 2017, when GEO Group terminated ...

The Michigan State University graduate can be reached at [email protected]. ... of an approximate total prison population of 1,800 at Michigan's only women's prison, ...

In some cases, the tablets were being used to conduct “criminal enterprise activity” within state prisons after inmates rigged their tablets with contraband Wi-Fi sticks to access the internet ...

NLCF has a grim history. Originally a prison for juveniles, its state contract was pulled in 2005 due to neglect. In 2020, immigrant detainees staged hunger strikes protesting denial of mail, lack ...