Government Reopens Discredited Private Prisons to Fill Them with Migrants Detained by ICE

Troubled Kansas prison could become ICE detention site for Trump-backed mass deportations

How Trump’s ICE Crackdown Dramatically Upended NYC’s Mayoral Election

(Composite by Hannah Yoest / Photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock)IF ZOHRAN MAMDANI KNOCKS OFF ANDREW CUOMO in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, he will have Latino voters to thank.A Marist poll released Wednesday showed that the democratic socialist assemblymember had more than halved Cuomo’s lead from May, when Cuomo led 53 percent to 29 percent. Now Cuomo leads by just 10 points in a simulated final round of ranked-choice voting. Th…

Government reopens discredited private prisons to fill them with migrants detained by ICE

In 1931, the city of Leavenworth, Kansas, welcomed one of the most notorious prisoners of the era: Al Capone. The gangsters George “Machine Gun” Kelly and James Earl Ray, who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr., were other infamous inmates who did time behind bars there. Now, the city is involved in a lawsuit over the Midwest Regional Reception Center (MRRC), which is preparing to house a different type of inmate: migrants detained by ICE (Immig…

With ICE crackdowns on the rise, private prisons are booming businesses

Within apartment complexes, workplaces, and courtrooms, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have forcibly detained more than 50,000 people in the first six months of 2025. These people, some of whom were reportedly detained for matters as trivial as a single missing form, find their lives abruptly uprooted as they are transported—sometimes thousands of miles across the country—to large-scale ICE detainment facilities, which a…

Private Prisons and the Economics of Incarceration: Anidjar & Levine Report Examines Growing Impact on U.S. Justice System - Social Media Explorer

A new policy analysis from Florida-based law firm Anidjar & Levine is drawing attention to the expanding role of private prisons in the United States, highlighting how profit motives continue to shape incarceration policies, operational practices, and sentencing trends across the country. As of late 2022, more than 90,000 people were held in privately operated correctional facilities, roughly 8% of the nation’s total state and federal prison pop…