Judge Linda Reade’s husband bought more prison stock five days before one of the nation’s biggest immigration raids.

Activists are trying to combat both the accelerated tracking and detaining of immigrants and the use of for-profit prisons to hold them by targeting the big banks that prop up for-profit prison companies.

From 2011 to 2015, the top five DHS contractors spent $107.6 million on lobbying and received a combined $9 billion in federal contracts

There is an obvious trail from Jeff Sessions to a major contractor.

Under Obama, DOJ was set to phase out private detention centers. After Trump's victory, prison corporation stocks skyrocketed.

With the feds cutting back, the companies are down but not out.

From prison construction to striped "convict classics" jumpsuits, these five off-the-radar corporations are earning millions from mass incarceration.

The cost of being in prison is not just the loss of your freedom, but also the debt you accumulate behind bars.

It's just the latest chapter in a story of one state's disastrous foray into the privatization of public services.

A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...