Recommendations to Take Private Prisons Out of the Shadows

( Note: These are recommendations aimed at ensuring that both immigrant prisons and immigrants no longer  remain in the shadows of our count...

Shadow Prison Industry & Govt. Enablers

(Note: This is an excerpt from a policy report by CIP's Americas Program that was prepared for a Jan. 25 congressional briefing hosted b...

Obama's Border and Immigration Busts

(Note: See Americas Program article on Obama's first year of Americas policy, based on the perspectives and projections of Center for In...

Proposed bill would extend public records law to private prisons

(Note: This item comes from the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press, at: http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=11233 ) Pro...

Expanding Freedom of Information Act Accountability to all Federal Prisons and Detention Facilities

(Note: The Private Corrections Working Group is helping to organize a congressional briefing this Monday on the need for Congress to pass le...

Immigration Detention Centers Operated by Alaska Native Corps Faced Hunger Strikes and Protests

(Note: NYT's Nina Bernstein continues her great reporting on ICE detention centers this week, with an update on the controversy over the...

Connecting the Intelligence Dots -- It's Easy

Within the intelligence community, it’s easy to connect the dots. Corporations like IBM, CACI, and Lockheed Martin – among the main intell...

CACI, Boeing, and Others Running Homeland Security’s Information Systems

CACI International, a company that says it specializes in the “new defense era” and “asymmetric warfare,” is the top private contractor at N...

Frontline Dispatches from Drug War Zone

Drug War Zone Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez By Howard Campbell University of Texas Press, 2009 Most front...