Cities like Phoenix and Salt Lake City push back against the Trump administration's initiatives to expand detention ...

Moves to create massive new immigration detention facilities are catching local officials by surprise, leaving them and their communities scrambling for answers.

A former prison in Marana slated to become an immigration detention center has a capacity of 513 people, according to state documents.

Asylum-seekers with no criminal records are being detained around the country as the Trump administration seeks to remove ...

After eight years of waiting for the federal government to schedule a hearing for his case, a father seeking asylum in Maine was instead detained, thrusting him into hostile court proceedings with ...

The Prison Policy Initiative's new report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2026, found that the rise in the number of people behind bars in the United States was largely driven by immigration ...

The Mableton City Council has unanimously approved a temporary moratorium on immigration detention centers within city limits. It pauses any proposals for the facilities while the city continues to ...

Plans for an immigration detention center in Salt Lake City are sparking strong opposition from Mayor Erin Mendenhall while ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and house detained immigrants after a nearly yearlong legal fight amid a massive national push for ...

The City Commission in Leavenworth approved a permit to private prison operator CoreCivic. Members voted 4-1 to approve a three-year permit with conditions that set minimum staffing levels, ban the ...

Mableton has issued an immediate temporary moratorium on all immigration detention center development and expansion.

SAN DIEGO — San Diego County filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday, seeking full access to ...