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Takeaways from AP’s reporting on shuttered prisons, mass deportation push and no-bid contracts
Private prison operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump ...
As GOP pushes spending cuts, many say Medicaid and food stamps are underfunded: AP-NORC poll
As Republican senators consider President Donald Trump’s big bill that could slash federal spending and extend tax cuts, a ...
ICE is using no-bid contracts, boosting big firms, to get more detention beds
Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time.
Juneteenth celebrations adapt after corporate sponsors pull support
Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the ...
Works begin in Ireland to exhume remains of hundreds of babies found at unwed mothers’ home
Officials in Ireland began work Monday to excavate the site of a former church-run home for unmarried women and their babies to identify the remains of some 800 infants and young ...
38 Palestinians killed in new shootings near food distribution centers, medics say
Gaza’s Health Ministry says 38 Palestinians have been killed in new shootings in areas of food distribution centers in the south of the territory. The toll Monday ...