FBI officials say two detainees who escaped from a federal immigration detention center in New Jersey last week have been recaptured, while another two remain at large.

Authorities are looking for four detainees who escaped from an immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from a private prison company facing a lawsuit claiming immigration detainees were forced to work and paid a $1 a day in Colorado.

Police say two men escaped from a Denver area immigration detention center apparently after its back doors opened during a power outage.

The Trump administration has resumed family detention of immigrants in a South Texas facility after a Biden-era pause.

The company that runs a for-profit immigration jail in Washington state has suspended its detainee work program, rather than pay the detainees minimum wage for cooking, cleaning and other tasks.

After nearly four years of litigation and pandemic-related delays, a trial is underway to determine whether the GEO Group must pay minimum wage to detainees who perform cooking, cleaning and other tasks at its Northwest immigration detention center in Washington state.

Stocks were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after a lackluster session on Wall Street. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)BANGKOK – Asian stocks were mixed on Wednesday after a lackluster session on Wall Street. Traders are also awaiting the outcome of a Federal Reserve policy meeting which wraps up later in the day. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index added 0.3% to 28,638.54, while the Hang Seng in Hong Kong also gained 0.3% to 29,485.60. Johnson & Johnson rose 2.7% after the company reported fourth-quarter results that cruised past Wall Street's expectations.

Together, CoreCivic and GEO Group made about $1.3 billion last year in contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Positioning themselves for the future, GEO and CoreCivic recently agreed to long-term contracts with the Trump administration for several immigration detention centers in Texas and California. The California agreements were reached days before the effective date of the law, which GEO and the Trump administration are now challenging in court. Most of the U.S. governments 200 immigration detention centers are run by private contractors holding asylum seekers and other immigrants accused of administrative violations or awaiting deportation. The private immigration system has grown under presidents of both parties over the last four decades.

The South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas. Across the nation, detention centers have become hotspots for the coronavirus, putting immigrant families and ICE officers at risk of contracting the virus. In early May, the immigration detention center was linked to more than 90% of Frio Countys confirmed COVID-19 cases. One of the detention centers has a rapid COVID-19 testing machine, but its constantly passed around between centers, Castro said. Garcia said shes not convinced recommended health protocols are being followed within the detention centers, though ICE employees told her they were.