Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable ...

The Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except for those convicted of a crime, created a legal loophole that fueled the convict leasing system in the South during Reconstruction.

What is a lease-purchase contract? They act similar to rent-to-own deals where you pay a down payment as well as a monthly ...

Through a system known as “convict leasing”, many African-American boys and men were arrested for minor offences such as vagrancy, imprisoned, and then leased out to work for private businesses.

The bill proposes allowing ICE to rent the Marana Community Correctional Treatment Facility and the state prison in Florence.

All Arizona would ask besides the nominal leasing fee of $1 per year is that ... said in May the law could cost the state prison system as much as $252 million over five years for more staffing ...

The nonprofit International Refugee Assistance Project said in a report last year that the migrants are held in "prison-like" conditions. It said migrants there were "trapped in a punitive system ...

The nonprofit International Refugee Assistance Project said in a report last year that the migrants are held in “prison-like ... “trapped in a punitive system” indefinitely, with no ...