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4Private ones make our communities less safe by focusing on shareholder profits and doing nothing for rehabilitating people to become productive citizens after they have served their sentence
7People in _____ are getting rich off of the incarceration and enslavement of people with little to none
8CoreCivic and the GEO Group depend on just three ALPHABET ones for an average of about 48 percent of their revenues over the past two years, these two companies have a vested interest in the Trump administration’s punitive immigration policies to ensure that they remain profitable
9The GEO Group and CoreCivic began in 1984 as Wackenhut Corrections Corporation became the two major ________-traded private prisons
10Private prison stocks Geo Group and CoreCivic LIKE OVER THE FENCE more than 4% and more than 6% after President-elect Donald Trump selected immigration hardliner Tom Homan as his “border czar.”
15GEO Group primarily runs off of government ones by a twice elected contractor
16During the 1980s and 1990s Wackenhut Corrections Corporation expanded its reach by overseeing correctional facilities, including prisons, jails and detention centers mainly within the United ? ______
17Overall in 2023, CoreCivic generated about $1.9 billion in COLD HARD through state and federal contracts
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1The Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to DO THIS to the NATIONAL UNPAYABLE DEBT and Immigrant Detention
2In 2017, the GEO Group moved its annual conference to a Trump-owned resort in Boca Raton,
3The United States prison system has become so _______ that almost anyone can be swallowed whole by it
5His administration policies have increased the migrant detainee population—and the profits of private prisons
6When you search for “publicly traded private prisons” on this search engine, this is the first headline to appear. “12 Best Prison and Law Enforcement Stocks to Buy Now”
7GEO Group and CoreCivic donated $250,000 each to __________ Trump’s inaugural committee
10The United States government, through the Department of JUST US, awarded GEO Group $105 million in 2020 alone
11Since Republican President Richard Nixon killed the GOLD standard and declared the national "War on _____" in the 1970s, the American prison population and cost of living has skyrocketed
12Securus Technologies Inc., a prison phone services provider has been criticized for charging as much as $25 for a 15-minute phone call from local ones and for requiring inmates to pay extra fees to open, fund and close accounts
13ON STAGE! the Laken Riley __ is slated to cost $83 billion over three years Private prison companies are going to get flooded with money
14Corporate ___, and what it allows, makes plain that the legal status of a system does not define it as moral, just or right. Slavery was legal. Mass incarceration is legal. Murder of the unborn is legal.