Border Lines

The member conference of the Detention Watch Network is coming up (Sept. 24-25), and many of its members believe it is time to organize to ...

(The Prison State of Texas, Part II) ICE, USMS, and BOP all have contracts and agreements with county governments – most of them impoveri...

Texas is a national leader, having the nation’s highest percentage of residents who are uninsured, the highest percentage without a high sc...

Contracts with the Department of Homeland Security are spewing billions of dollars into private industry, largely to companies that also rel...

Blackwater USA, the world’s largest private security firm (recently renamed Xe), is the subject of much public concern about the outsourcin...

One of the earliest indications that the Department of Homeland Security was going to be a font contracts and opportunities for the defense...

Gordon England, the former deputy secretary of defense who replaced the controversial Paul Wolfowitz in 2005, has returned from whence he c...