In earnings reports released this week the nation's two largest private prison operators cited "significant growth opportunities" for detaining immigrants, driven largely by the Obama administration's emphasis on detaining "criminal aliens."

The GEO Group - an international private prison operator that draws about 75 percent of its revenue from...

On the same day that Corrections Corporation of America opened a new 500-bed immigrant detention center, Homeland Security officials released a highly anticipated review of detention centers. Accompanied by recommendations and next steps, the review promises better federal oversight and health care in the largely outsourced network of...

On the heels of Immigration and Custom Enforcement's announcement that it will stop holding children in Corrections Corporation of America's T. Don Hutto detention center, the nation's largest private prison provider assured investors that they still expect plenty of business from the federal government.

"In some respects there may...

President Obama has tried to split the difference between comprehensive immigration-reform advocates and law-and-order types. But for immigrants in detention, not much has changed since the Bush era.

Maria del Carmen Garcia-Martinez recently emerged from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) holding cell in Maricopa County, Arizona, with her arm...

Anywhere from 50 to 100 detainees at the sprawling Port Isabel Processing Center in Los Fresos, Texas, stopped eating last Wednesday in an effort to draw attention to extended detention that they say violates their right to due process.

One of the detainees on hunger strike - Rama Carty...

No drinking water, changes of clothing, soap or shower - those are the conditions inside a Los Angeles jail for immigrants that prompted the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California to sue the federal government. Detainees also lack access to mail and attorneys.

The facility is designed to detain...

In 2004, antiwar activists pushed bright red booklets titled "Houston We Have a Problem" under the doors of hotel rooms where Halliburton shareholders rested before the company's annual meeting. The booklets were alternative annual reports that detailed how Halliburton and its then subsidiary, KBR, overcharged taxpayers for services in Iraq,...

This month, Karl Rove began using Twitter. In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, he sounded like a born-again social networker. If the Republican party has a future, he said, it is going to be online. "The political Web 2.0 is about networking and Democrats grabbed the lead," he...