By the time she was released from a Louisiana immigrant detention center, a Nashville mother of two could no longer breastfeed her young daughters. Her milk had dried up.  An asylum seeker from Guatemala, she had not seen or spoken with her children since being detained by immigration agents at her home on May 19 […]

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(The Center Square) - Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is suing the federal government as part of a second legal battle against the construction of immigrant detention centers in the state.

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 […]