Prison guards at privately-run Trousdale Turner Correctional Center will start wearing body cameras Tuesday as required by a new state law designed to improve safety at the embattled facility. The CoreCivic prison was supposed to initiate the body cams in July, but delays with the purchase of equipment postponed operations for two months, according to […]

Revenue grew more than 27% for private prison operator CoreCivic as the Tennessee company profited from contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that support the Trump administration’s mass detention and deportation agenda, according to a shareholders’ report released last week.  Revenue from ICE, alone, increased more than 50% compared to the same three-month period last […]

Over $100 million is aiding Marsha Blackburn’s rise from the Tennessee state legislature to U.S. Congress and now her bid for governor. About half of that money she’s raised through campaign accounts and a federal political action committee, PAC, and outside groups have spent the other half on her behalf, particularly in a costly 2018 […]