Sentences with phrase «private prison company in»

This launched the Corrections Corporation of America (CXW), currently the largest private prison company in the United States.

Corrections Corporation of America, the largest and most powerful private prison company in the nation, lost four prison contracts in the past month after extensive reports of abuse, neglect, and even fraud within their operations.

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And within a span of six weeks this fall, Hillary Clinton caused a drop in biotech stocks with a tweet calling for greater regulation of drug prices, then single - handedly tanked stocks of private - corrections companies when she tweeted about prison reform.

CCA directed me to a 2013 report — funded in part by the company and GEO — that claimed private prisons could save states as much as 59 percent over public prisons without sacrificing quality.

CoreCivic, one of the largest U.S. private prison companies, has shelved a proposal to build a detention facility for undocumented migrants in Indiana after a series of community protests.

Not just for construction companies but for such private enterprises as the Corrections Corporation of America, a Tennessee - based company that is leading the way in the exorbitant campaign to turn all prisons over to private enterprise.

Euphemistically called a «secure college» the proposed facility is, in reality, an enormous new prison built to save costs by warehousing children and contracting out its running to private sector companies such as Serco and G4S.

On June 8, City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced that the city had liquidated around $ 48 million in stocks and bonds related to three private prison companies.

Stringer then directed investment managers to liquidate all investments in companies that derive at least 20 percent of their revenue from private prisons, including both direct investments and stock owned as part of an index fund.

The G4S Olympics debacle, when the army had to step in and provide additional security staff, added to the concerns about the capability of private companies to run prisons safely.

The decision was strongly criticised by the unions, as was the decision to allow private companies to run the two new build prisons, HMP Oakwood and HMP Thameside which opened in Spring 2012.

Comptroller Scott Stringer said Thursday that New York City's pension funds had divested its investments in private prison companies, calling it the first such move by a major U.S. city.

When America's largest private prison company opened a 2,000 - bed facility in a barren stretch of the Mojave Desert in southeastern California in

Private prison companies spent nearly $ 3.5 million on federal lobbying in 2017, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

There are several tailwinds that could propel private prisons to new heights: private correctional facilities house only a fraction of all inmates in the United States and the world, state and federal governments are more willing than ever to outsource prison management to a private company, and the number of incarcerated people continues to grow at a rate faster than the general population.