As pediatricians, we know detention harms a child's physical and mental health, from stress to damage in brain development.

Illinois banned private immigration detention facilities during President Donald Trump's first term. Local governments are also not allowed to enter into contracts to house people facing deportation ...

Mahmoud Khalil’s detention in Louisiana, along with that of several other campus activists who have been shipped to detention ...

An illegal immigrant who was arrested for incest in January and was soon after released by a Virginia county jail is now in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.

The GEO Group wants to open a 1,200-bed detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But the city has gone ...

Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big ...

Altogether, 20 facilities of varying sizes located in the three states hold 59% of ICE’s detained population on any given day, according to TRAC. Many of the largest immigration detention ...

Documents show ICE seeking to expand detention facilities already in use, open new facilities in 10 states across the Midwest ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking contractors for what it describes as emergency detention that would include detention facilities, transportation, security guards and medical ...

Because immigration and visa violations are civil, not criminal matters, ICE detention is supposed to be "non-punitive," according to the agency's own guidelines.

The administration is signing billion-dollar contracts with private prison operators. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is attempting to increase its detention capacity by 100,000.