GEO Group prison staff falsified records on the morning a detainee died in ICE custody at the Moshannon Valley detention center in Pennsylvania.

The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.

The Peter Thiel–founded, ‘Lord of the Rings’–inspired company has a massive government presence and is seemingly always at the center of controversy. So, uh … why does hardly anyone know what it does?

Robert Fuller Jr., 87, was found dead inside his apartment at Potomac Senior Living with a gunshot wound to the head on Feb. 14.

Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

“A lot of the surveillance technology that's coming for us in North America is framed as ‘battle tested’ in Palestine.”

“I wish I could convey to them that the people they’re hurting are real human beings,” says Juniper, 24, of Witchita Kansas.

The environmental impact of SpaceX's planned gargantuan mega-constellation is still being grappled with, but the FCC isn’t required to study it

Dispatch records and a police report obtained by OPB describe the previously unreported incident last fall.

A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

“Before they came for us, and woke, and us, and power, they came for Jesse Jackson,” Kiese Laymon, the author of Heavy and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, wrote just hours after the news broke that Jesse Jackson had joined the ancestors. “And they came for Jesse Jackson because he loved us in word, deed and policy.” The “us” Rev. Jackson loved obviously included Black Americans first. But “us” also included poor people, disabled Americans and—before any other national politician did so—gay Americans. In fact, more than 40 years before our current anti-gay and anti-trans hell, the first speech supporting gay rights at a national political convention was delivered by Rev. Jackson himself at the Democratic National Convention in 1984. Unlike Barack Obama, who would tepidly support us a dozen years after that by telling the Windy City Times that he was for same-sex marriage (only to deny he’d ever said that when he ran for president in 2008, and not publicly support it again until Joe Biden forced the issue in 2012), Jesse has been there for LGBTQ people consistently for four decades, especially regarding the crisis of HIV/AIDS.

Federal authorities raided the home and office of Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Alberto Carvalho, the FBI confirmed. Agents also searched a residence in Florida in connection with the investigation

The number of people affected by a data breach at government contractor giant Conduent is growing, as millions of people continue to receive notices warning them that hackers stole their personal data.

For just a few hours, Americans were able to enjoy double hockey gold. Then politics came crashing through the men’s locker room door.

Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

From small art schools to large public universities, the new DOJ release of emails reveals just how deep the financier’s influence in academia went. Students are demanding accountability.

Law enforcement members are still searching for a suspect who drove a stolen ambulance into a Meridian building where some office space is leased by the Department of Homeland Security. Police said they believe the suspect […] (this is my old office)

Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery tries to recast a life of privilege in often baffling ways.

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?