All posts tagged "Private Prisons"

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GEO Group, one of the world’s largest private prison companies, is ramping up its lobbying operation as lawmakers in Washington eye budget cuts to “alternatives to detention” programs.

The private prison giant spent $690,000 on federal lobbying during the first six months of 2024, more than it spent in the first half of any other year during the Biden administration, according to OpenSecrets’ analysis of lobbying disclosures filed on July 21. During former President Donald Trump’s administration, GEO Group lobbying expenditures hit a new record but then started to decline after Biden entered the White House. ...

While Chris Matthews grilled Trump during the most recent townhall, the GOP candidate uttered one of many outrageous statements regarding the country's prison system that went unchallenged and largely unnoticed.

Falling crime rates are bad for business at privately run prisons, and a new report shows the companies that own them require them to be filled near capacity to maintain their profit margin.

In exchange for keeping at least a 90 percent occupancy rate, the private prison company Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) has sent a letter to 48 states offering to manage their prisons for the low price of $250 million per year, according to a letter obtained by the Huffington Post.

The private industry group ALEC, which creates form legislation that's been copied and passed by Republicans in numerous states, has been a driving force behind the rise of the private prison industry in America.