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The GEO Group’s North Lake Correctional Facility pink-slipped its workers this week after the state of California decided not to renew a contract to house inmates there. The Baldwin facility, Michigan’s only private prison, originally operated as a maximum security youth prison but sat dormant for six years before reopening in May with a plan to house more than 2,500 California inmates.

According to new numbers from Gallup, more than four in ten Americans describe themselves as conservative, significantly more than the 35 percent who describe

GUANTANAMO BAY -- A youthful-looking woman in a gray suit with long brown hair is known only to us as Interrogator Number 11. She was a military interrogator at

The Lansing medical marijuana clinic at the center of the pot for votes scandal has posted a strongly-worded denial on its website slamming reports that it was compensating anyone for votes. Your Healthy Choice Clinic, located on Michigan Ave in downtown Lansing only six blocks from the Capitol, posted the note from owner Shekina Pena.

After a former immigration detention guard was charged yesterday with sexually abusing female detainees, the ACLU is renewing calls for further reform of the

For many conservative activists, the RNC’s lavish spending only accelerated the revolt against the committee that had been brewing for months.

The #TCOT Report homepage is currently given over to a huge picture of me and this charge, which I’ll just reprint below: Meme Wars: Transparency Dodger

The federal agency charged with ensuring the safety of the nation’s pipeline system released for public comment earlier this week a proposal to overhaul

Jacob Laksin has a lengthy take-out on the muckraking right, the conservative bloggers and videographers who’ve been able to, occasionally, blow past the

As the Wall Street bailout nears its first anniversary, a risky aspect of the financial rescue has flown largely under the radar.

Rahm Emanuel is not a legally viable candidate for the Chicago mayor’s office, according to a Monday ruling from an Illinois appellate court. The panel decided

Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst aren’t the only state leaders in the U.S. to have private donors and corporate interests pick up the tab for

Today, RealtyTrac announced that lenders repossessed 93,000 homes in July -- 9 percent more than in June, and up 6 percent since 2009. Again, California had the

What began as one of the most controversial issues of the months-long health care debate continues to be so: The public option -- a government-backed insurance

The Michigan Department of Corrections has told corrections officer James Sims that he is not allowed to wear his uniform in Saturday’s gay pride march in Lansing. Sims, who works at the Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson, made the request so he could be identified as a corrections officer while participating in the march with members of the newly formed Michigan Gay Officers Action League (M-GOAL). The group represents LGBT first responders, law enforcement agents and correctional facility officers

Changes to Social Security see support from both parties. Senate candidate Alvin Greene’s job-creation idea is to make action figures of himself. Michele

Last week, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) asked the White House to lend West Virginia’s lawmakers periodic briefings on the investigation into last week’s

Shirley Sherrod may not accept her USDA job back. Alex Sink (D) leads by 6 points or more over either likely Republican candidate in the Florida governor’s

Republican senators say they can still work with Democrats after health care. A former U.S. general apologizes for his anti-gay remarks about preventing the

A page from the fire boss book -- a log of safety records -- was removed at the Upper Big Branch Mine that killed 29 miners in Montcoal, W.Va., last month,

No, not that Palin. Apparently, an online movement is building to put Monty Python’s Michael Palin in the Oval Office -- despite the fact that the