This Private Prison Company Is Getting Rich Off Donald Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

The Trump administration is cracking down on undocumented immigrants—and the GEO Group’s shareholders couldn’t be happier.

A private prison company currently being sued for human trafficking expects to handle one quarter of President Donald Trump’s immigrant detention.

The company, GEO Group, contracts with governments around the world to incarcerate 100,000 people, and its top executives expressed optimism on a public shareholder call on Tuesday about how Trump’s immigration crackdown will impact their business. It’s indicative of a cultural overhaul taking place under the Trump administration——where well-connected multi-national corporations are poised to see significant financial gains because of tougher immigration law enforcement.
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America’s Biggest Private Prison Company Let Inmates Kill Each Other, Lawsuit Claims

As the politicians wrap up this season’s melees of madness, it is always good to look at what policies gained ground with the populace as the candidates canvased the nation for votes. This cycle we saw more talk about private prisons than before. First it was an overlapping conversation between the Sanders campaign and an accusation that the Clinton campaign was taking money from the private prison industry. By the end of the primary however, the Hillary campaign had taken the narrative on fully that it was time to end private prisons.

Betsy Woodruff of the Daily Beast wrote a new article on how well received this message has been received on the road.

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The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government.

Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the decision on Thursday in a memo that instructs officials to either decline to renew the contracts for private prison operators when they expire or “substantially reduce” the contracts’ scope. The goal, Yates wrote, is “reducing — and ultimately ending — our use of privately operated prisons.”

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http://jonathanturley.org/2015/10/25/fcc-votes-to-end-predatory-pricing-of-inmate-telephone-calls/

From Jonathan Turley’s blog:

We previously featured an article on how the practice of private organizations charging predatory tolls on inmate telephone calls. Now, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), a regulatory agency of the U.S. Government, voted to enact guidelines limiting these tolls to be more in-line with reasonable costs that the agency believes will balance inmate needs with legitimate rates of return required by carriers to remain viable in their business venture.

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Young Turks covers Bernie Sander’s call to abolish private prison industry.

From Houston Chronicle:

A prison in south Texas erupted with rioting this week. Some 2,000 inmates started fires and took over the Willacy County Correctional Center. Authorities needed two days to wrest back control of the immigration detention facility in Raymondville near the Mexico border.

The inmate complaints that preceded the riot are similar to those heard of many U.S. for-profit prisons. Texas has dozens of these controversial facilities.
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Florida Atlantic University is planning to allow a Private Prison Slave Trader engage in naming their stadium.

Letter sent to Florida Atlantic University