Private Prisons

Jim Zeigler has criticized the plan to lease two new privately run men's prisons as a poor use of taxpayer dollars

The underwriter pulled out following criticism that it was breaking a promise not to get involved in for-profit prisons

Advocacy groups warned that privately built prisons won't address chronic violence and severe staffing woes

"This is a first step to stop corporations from profiting off of incarceration," Biden said

Under the ruling, at least four immigration detention centers with the capacity to house approximately 5,000 people would be phased out over the coming years

The financial terms will be disclosed when the deals are final, which the Ivey administration expects to be late this year

Gov. Kay Ivey described the move as a step toward overhauling an understaffed and violence-plagued prison system beset by years of federal criticism

GEO and CoreCivic recently agreed to long-term contracts with the Trump administration for several immigration detention centers in Texas and California

The lawsuit alleges the state law unconstitutionally interferes with the federal prison and immigration detention systems

CoreCivic is preparing for changes in the private sector should a Democratic presidential candidate win the 2020 election

As part of the plan, the state would house prisoners at former max security prison for inmates in solitary confinement

California will ban the use of for-profit, private detention facilities, including those under contract to the federal government to hold immigrants awaiting deportation hearings