Private Prison Simulation Game Goes Viral on Apple App Store

With over two million people locked up across a sprawling network of private and public prisons, the US has by far the highest incarceration rate in the world, significantly worse than brutal dictatorships in Africa, Latin America or Central Asia.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Private Prison Tycoon Feature photo

A new game called “Prison Empire Tycoon” is going viral. Released in late May, it has risen to become the current number one strategy game in Apple’s App Store and has been among the top 20 most popular games overall since its launch, with at least  3 million downloads to date. In line with many other popular business simulation games like the

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Abused Asylum-Seekers Launch Legal Battle Against ICE and its “Concentration Camp” Prisons

MPN spoke to advocates and an attorney working on a lawsuit by a group of refugees who are suing the government and for-profit GEO Group for the abuse and torment they suffered at the notorious Adelanto ICE detention center in California.  

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
Adelanto Detention Center

ADELANTO, CALIFORNIA – A group of refugees from Central America, who faced beatings and abuse while detained at a California detention center last year, are pursuing legal action in hopes of drawing attention to the systematic abuse of migrants who are being confined in a growing network of concentration camp-style facilities across the United

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Private Prisons Positioned To Reap Massive Profits From Immigrantion Raids

CoreCivic — formerly the Corrections Corporation of America — has said it is able to provide the extra detention facilities needed to enforce Trump’s executive orders on immigration.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Mexico Immigration

(Report) --- U.S. President Donald Trump has begun to follow through on his promise to crack down on immigration and roll out harsh border securitization, and while undocumented immigrants will face the suffer the gravest repercussions, private prisons, on the other hand, stand to be the biggest beneficiaries. In just two weeks since Trump

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In ‘Tacit Admission’ Of Cruelty, DHS Says It Too May End For-Profit Prisons

“Locking up immigrants, including families and children fleeing extreme violence in Central America, should not be a source of profit for huge corporation.”

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
Immigration Overload-Nogales

On the heels of the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ's) "important and groundbreaking decision" to phase out the use of private prisons, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has just signaled that it may follow in those footsteps—a move that would heed human rights advocates' call for the agency to end "prison profiteers in our inhumane

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Justice Dept Announces It Will End Use Of For-Profit Prisons

As soon as the news broke the DOJ would be abandoning for-profit prisons, stock value crashed for both Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO Group.

Claire Bernish
By Claire Bernish
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. The Justice Department says it’s phasing out its relationships with private prisons after a recent audit found the private facilities have more safety and security problems than ones run by the government.

In a stunning turn of events, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it will no longer use private prisons to incarcerate federal prisoners, deeming the notorious for-profit facilities both less safe and less effective in providing correctional services than those operated by the government. “They simply do not provide the same level of

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Private US Prisons Break Most Rules And It’s The Govt’s Fault

GEO Group claim they have more violations because they’re monitored more closely, but according to a new report, they’re not being monitored enough.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Prisons For Cash

Overcrowding, unattended health issues and abusive behavior is rampant in private prisons, according to a federal review released Thursday, and the Bureau of Prisons that oversees conditions has enabled some of the practices and let others slip by. Private prisons, or “contract prisons,” have mushroomed since the BOP started outsourcing

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