Private prisons could see big payoffs

[struggle4progress]

Fredreka Schouten , USA TODAY
Published 1:10 p.m. ET Feb. 23, 2017 | Updated 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON — Private prison companies, which stand to make big gains under President Trump’s tough new immigration orders, also have contributed big sums to pro-Trump groups, including the organization that raised a record $100 million for his inauguration last month.

GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison operators, donated $250,000 to support Trump’s inaugural festivities, Pablo Paez, the company’s vice president of corporate relations, told USA TODAY.

That’s on top of the $225,000 that a company subsidiary donated to a super PAC that spent some $22 million to help elect the real-estate magnate. Another prison operator, CoreCivic, gave $250,000 to support Trump’s inauguration, recently filed congressional reports show.

For-profit prison companies see the potential for significant growth under the Trump administration and a Republican-led Congress where some lawmakers are pushing to toughen penalties for undocumented immigrants who are deported and then re-enter the country illegally ...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/23/private-prisons-back-trump-and-could-see-big-payoffs-new-policies/98300394/

[Doreen]

1. Of course. bad health care, uncared for buildings, bad food, and

best of all slave labor. Put many many people in prison and no one will have to be hired to fix the infrastructure. Yup, if you want a job get put in Trumps prisons.

[Kimchijeon]

2. Oh, I'll bet they will. I am not surprised in the least

that these horrible scumbags would be scheming to further profit from human misery.

[dalton99a]

3. Profiting from human suffering and getting rich off the taxpayers