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An image showing the entrance of the Nevada Southern Detention Center.

As Private Prisons Push To Keep Costs Down, Workers Can Pay The Price

Noah Glick

Support for our series Private Prison: Locking Down The Facts came from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit news organization that…

Ravenhall Correctional Centre in Melbourne, Australia, is one of just a few private prisons with performance-based contracts specifically aimed at reducing recidivism.

A New Private Prison In Australia Offers Lessons For U.S. — But It Still Lacks Transparency

Rae Ellen Bichell

Support for our series Private Prisons: Locking Down The Facts came from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit news organization that...

A rendering of CoreCivic's proposed immigration detention center in Evanston, Wyoming.

Can A Private ICE Detention Center Save A Rural Town's Economy?

Nate Hegyi

Support for our series Private Prison: Locking Down The Facts came from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit news organization that...

Ravenhall Correctional Centre, in Melbourne, Australia, is operated by an international division of the U.S.-based GEO Group.

Private Prisons Profit Off Incarceration. One In Australia Shows How To Flip The Script

Rae Ellen Bichell

Support for our series Private Prisons: Locking Down The Facts came from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit news organization that...

Idaho Department of Correction Director Josh Tewalt stands in front of the Idaho State Correctional Center.

Why Idaho Still Depends On Private Prisons Despite Fraught History

Madelyn Beck

Support for our series Private Prison: Locking Down The Facts came from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a nonprofit news organization that...

The Fox Reentry Center, one of the many halfway houses in Denver owned by CoreCivic--at least for now.

Denver Didn't Want The Private Prison Industry To Run Its Halfway Houses. Now Who's Going To Do It?

Ali Budner

Support for our series Private Prisons: Locking Down The Facts came from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit news organization that...