Sentences with phrase «profit prison company»

The plans for the work were inspired by citizens of Crete, Illinois who were able to prevent a for - profit prison company from constructing a new detention center in their village, effectively blocking the building of an immigrant prison.

10/16 GEO Group, the nation's largest for - profit prison company, holds its annual conference at the Trump National Doral.

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Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

Private prison companies have been preparing for such a moment by shifting their focus to ICE facilities, many of which are already run by for - profit entities and house immigration detainees, according to Petrella.

-- A group of 30 Criminal justice advocacy groups are pressuring the City Council to end all programs that allow private companies to profit off of prisons

Some items which ordinarily should be state matters like police, prisons, stamp duties, taxation of incomes, profits and capital gains, regulation of tourist traffic, registration of business names, incorporation of companies, traffic on federal truck roads passing through states, trade, commerce and census among others were transferred from the Concurrent to the Exclusive List.

In the Public Interest recently released a report, Buying Access: How Corporations Influence Decision Makers at Corrections Conferences, Trainings, and Meetings, shedding light on how for - profit companies use conferences such as ACA's to build influence with decision - makers in the public prison system.

All investments are screened to exclude companies that profit from interest, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, pornography, weapons, prisons, war / international conflict, hydraulic fracturing, and other areas that cause societal or environmental harm.

It's worth noting that the Koch - funded American Legislative Exchange Council distributed Arizona's controversial racial profiling law, SB 1070, to states around the country so private prison companies can rake a profit off the incarceration of immigrants.