Statutory Authority to Contract With the Private Prisons
Mar 5, 2020
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Lawsuit: FEC Won’t Act on Private Prison Firm’s Illegal Donations to Trump Campaign
Jan 17, 2018
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The Campaign Legal Center (CLC), a nonprofit group filed a lawsuit on Jan. 10 in federal district court in Washington, D.C. claiming the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has not acted on the group’s complaint, filed more than a year ago, that a private prison company made illegal six-figure campaign donations to a “super PAC” (political
The private prison model lines pockets, but at what cost?
Jan 4, 2018
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By Christopher Zoukis On August 18, 2016, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates issued a memorandum with the subject line “Reducing our use of Private Prisons.” In the memo, Yates points out that the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) had contracted with privately operated facilities about a decade ago in an effort to curtail the burden of
Private Prison Firms Spend Billions Buying Other Companies
Jun 24, 2017
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By Christopher Zoukis A fact sheet compiled by In the Public Interest (ITPI), a public policy research organization, indicates that Corrections Corporation of America – CCA, now known as CoreCivic – and the GEO Group, the two largest private prison firms in the nation, have spent a combined $2.2 billion since 2005 acquiring other, smaller
States Wrestle with Prison Privatization
Jun 12, 2017
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By Christopher Zoukis In 2016, questions were raised in at least three states about the amount of taxpayer money flowing into the coffers of private, for-profit prison companies. Take Colorado, for example. When lawmakers were considering an almost $26 billion state budget last year, they noticed it included a curious last-minute addition: $3 million for
Report: How Private Prison Companies Exercise Influence Over Public Officials
Apr 3, 2017
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An October 2016 report released by In the Public Interest (ITPI), a research and policy group that opposes the privatization of government services, details the millions of dollars spent by for-profit prison companies to influence public officials. The report tracks political expenditures by private prison firms, including Corrections Corporation of America (CCA, now known as
Despite DOJ Ban, Private Prison Contracts in Georgia Are Renewed
Dec 1, 2016
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This past August was a very rough month for privately-owned and operated prisons at the hands of the Department of Justice. First, on Aug. 11, the DOJ inspector general’s office issued an 86-page report unfavorably comparing the performance of private prisons – looking over a four-year span at eight problem factors, including the incidence of
States Should Follow Feds On Rethinking Private Prisons
Oct 20, 2016
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A report on for-profit private prisons indicates the model has serious problems. Recently the US Department of Justice announced they would be closing all privately run federal prisons, declining to renew contracts, or significantly reducing the scope of private prison contracts. This comes following a report from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General
Taking the Charter School Approach to Prison
May 4, 2015
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By Andra Ghent America spends a lot of money locking up a lot of people. Understandably, legislators are trying to find ways of cutting prison costs without increasing crime rates. One tactic legislators increasingly rely on to manage costs is private prisons. Research from the Sentencing Project shows that, between 1999 and 2010, the share
GEO Group’s Florida Immigration Detention Center “Horrifying”
Apr 16, 2015
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By David M. Reutter Hundreds of undocumented immigrants are housed at the GEO Group-operated Broward Transitional Center (BTC) in Pompano Beach, Florida, and many are victims of mistreatment and policy violations, according to a report issued by an immigrants’ rights group. The 71-page report, released on April 29, 2013, by Americans for Immigrant Justice (AIJ),
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