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With Deep Ties to Politicians, Private Prisons Have Exploded As Profit Centers
Politicians have favored private prisons because they’re supposed to save taxpayer money – but they haven’t, and meanwhile they generate windfall profits for corporate shareholders while creating far worse conditions for prisoners.
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Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed On Prisons
Former inmates have joined human rights advocates to organize nationwide demonstrations targeting everything from private phone-and-money-transfer companies to prison food vendors.
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Columbia Students Launch Divestment Campaign To Get Money Out Of Prisons
Columbia Prison Divest pressured the university to dump $8 million in Corrections Corporation of America, the country’s largest private prison company, as well as shares in other behemoths of the private security industry.
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Monitors to Phones to Meals: These 5 Corporations Are Quietly Making Billions Off Incarceration
Companies off the popular radar are benefiting from epidemic prison and jail building – some may even be even operating in your neighborhood.
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Veronica Noriega’s Hunger Strike in Seattle: What it Means For Immigrants and All of Us
Veronica Noriega is putting herself on the line for thousands of families, and this is why you should care.
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Private Prisons: The Injustice League
The two largest private prison providers in the U.S. each rake in tens of millions of dollars every year – but how do they make their money and what agreements are in place to protect their profits?
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Major Corporations Announce $60 Million Divestment from Private Prisons
Thanks to sustained pressure from ColorOfChange, this may be the first time that a series of corporations have confirmed divestment from private prisons.
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Global Power Project, Part 8: Banking on Influence with Wells Fargo
As the world's largest bank, Wells Fargo is able to commit countless crimes -- fraud, illegal foreclosures, money laundering, you name it -- and continues to get away with them by paying relatively small fines.
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Obama Deports Record Number of Immigrants, Using Scary Private GEO Group to Get the Job Done
The largest deportation prison in the U.S. is a former jail in the hyper-corrupt City of Adelanto, California, where public officials are often criminals.
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A Company That Runs Prisons Will Have Its Name on a Stadium
On Tuesday, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton solidified a $6 million deal to rename its football building GEO Group Stadium, after the private prison corporation.