http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/03/this-private-prison-company-is-getting-rich-off-donald-trump-s-immigration-crackdown
>A private prison company currently being sued for human trafficking expects to handle one quarter of President Donald Trump’s immigrant detention.
>The company, GEO Group, contracts with governments around the world to incarcerate 100,000 people, and its top executives expressed optimism on a public shareholder call on Tuesday about how Trump’s immigration crackdown will impact their business. It’s indicative of a cultural overhaul taking place under the Trump administration—where well-connected multi-national corporations are poised to see significant financial gains because of tougher immigration law enforcement.
>GEO Group has close ties to Trump’s political circles. The company gave $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration, according to USA Today. A subsidiary of the company gave $225,000 to a super PAC helmed by the Mercer family. And Rebekah Mercer, hedge fund manager Robert Mercer’s daughter, is widely reported to be one of the most influential donors in Trump’s circle. And last October, the company retained two former aides to now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to lobby the federal government on prison contracts, as Politico reported.
>Beyond being politically connected, GEO Group is controversial. Immigrants’ rights groups have long criticized it and its biggest American counterpart, CoreCivic, for the way they treat detainees. And in February, a federal judge ruled that former detainees at one GEO immigrant detention center could direct a class-action lawsuit at the company for forcing them to work for little or no wages—which they allege violates the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. GEO strongly denies those allegations.
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>On the call, executives noted that Trump’s executive orders on immigration enforcement and Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recent announcement on prosecuting undocumented immigrants more forcefully will mean more arrests, more detention and, thus, more demand for their services—which their CEO, George Zoley, said were “culturally responsive environments.”
>The call gave a broad picture of how private prison companies expect to see the Trump administration roll out its immigration crackdown: with more deportations of people with deep ties to the United States, and more immigrant detention in the northeast of the country.
>Zoley said a new ICE contract for a 1,000-bed detention center in Conroe, Texas, will cost $117 million to build and will generate $44 million in revenue per year once it’s opened in late 2018. The CEO said the company expects “increased demand for detention capacity at the federal level,” and that it bought the Maverick County Detention Center in Texas for $15 million to meet that demand.
>On top of that, the CEO noted the company has enough space to detain 7000 more people than it is right now, which could mean another $60 million per year in revenue.
>GEO Group investors who asked questions on the call were closely following the impact of Trump’s changes on the business, peppering the executives with questions about how policy changes could make the company more lucrative. Michael Kodesch, an analyst with Cannacord Genuity, asked what the company saw as “the new opportunity set” given Congressional budgeting.
>“What we see is ICE beginning to implement their interior enforcement strategy,” said David Venturella, the company’s senior vice president of business development. “For the past 8 to 10 years, the focus has been on the border. I think everybody has seen the number of apprehensions and crossings going down, so Phase 2 of that strategy is to focus in the interior.
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>“Does the change or, I guess, the introduction of more emphasis on interior enforcement—does that change the agency’s geographic preference, as far as incremental bed demand?”
>Venturella responded that he expected more immigrant detention facilities near big cities.
>“I think as ICE deploys more resources to the larger metropolitan areas within the United States, I think the bed needs will be closer to those sources,” he said. “So yes, there will be less needs along the border if the rate of border-crossings and apprehensions remain low, then the need will shift to the interior part of the United States.”
>Then Sommer asked how enforcement could “impact activity levels” at the U.S. Marshals and Bureau of Prisons, both of which also have contracts with GEO.
>“Well, I think any enforcement by federal law enforcement agencies could generate more prosecution convictions and then eventual detention in the federal system,” Venturella said. “I think the attorney general’s recent announcement regarding the prosecution of criminal aliens would apply to all the federal agencies, so we will monitor the impact of that new policy directive. But certainly, any increase in law enforcement activity could generate additional apprehensions and then eventually detentions.”
>In the final months of the Obama administration, the Justice Department announced it would stop signing new contracts with private prison companies. That announcement came after a watchdog report concluded people incarcerated in private prisons were more likely to commit crimes again than than people held in public ones. Shortly after becoming attorney general, Sessions reversed this decision.
>And the investors sound pleased.
>>136455
Good
>>136461
How is that a good thing?
>>136462
Didn't you get the memo? We elected Trump to line the pockets of rich kikes, fuck the people.
>>136455
Same under Clinton
Same under Bush
Same under Obama
Why is this an issue all of the sudden
>>136470
This
People just now realizing the for-profit prison system is fucked up and linking it to Trump are morons, it's been this way for decades.
>>136470
As bad as obama, clinton, and bush were, I get the feeling that they had some core guiding principles to their governing, that they tempered with making deals on the side as a necessary evil of reaching a compromise where they got some of their platform into legislation. In contrast, Trump has been giving off the vibe of "I don't give a fuck as long as I stay in office and the special interests credit me with the deals they get". Like, how do you go from promising single-payer healthcare system to insisting on a plan only the most conservative congressmen will find agreeable? Was there even some period of reflection on his ideas or did they just change the instant that Bannon said we've got to get Republican healthcare done?
If they were honest, I'd bet a lot of Trump's hardcore support would agree, but still support him because Bannon is the ideological one that gives Trump his marching orders, and in exchange Trump gets to milk his office for all it'll get him. Trump supporters probably know they can't count on Republican politicians to get a wall and a hard crackdown on immigration, so they'll put up with Trump just to get a president that follows someone with a mindset like their own. Bannon himself couldn't be elected president in our country, so this is the next best thing for them.
>>136476
But then what will they blame on "liberals"?
>>136470
Because now every bad thing that the government does will be associated with Trump even though the same shit was happening under Obama.
>>136487
The whole point of the article is that Trump's administration is reversing the Obama-era policy of *not* using private contractors.
I'm no fan but Donald Trump can fart and the MSM would label it the most anti-Semitic fart ever
>>136490
And then after the media was done, Trump would appoint someone else from Goldman Sachs to his cabinet.
The fact that Trump has connections to private prison contractors who are profiting under his administration should be a red flag to people. Even if legislation didn't change under Obama, he wasn't standing to gain from leaving things the way they were, at least not financially. This whole thing stinks of profiteering, just like the last two Republican presidents, Bush #1 and #1, who started wars to help their oil connections. I can't even vote politically any more, the Republican candidates are so fucking clearly corrupt I can't believe anyone votes for them any more.
>>136470
>Sudden
Because it started to get cracked down on under Obama. Reform was heavily pushed.
I'm against incarcerating illegals who haven't committed violent crimes. The goal is to get them out of the country so they're not sucking up any more of our resources and tax dollars. Deport them, then shoot them if they come back.
>>136530
>muh Kate's law
>>136509
From my knowledge, this was never the case. I would happily reverse my stance if you could bring up an article on it.
>>136501
It's not illegal corruption if we legalize it!
#DrainTheSwampByCallingAllFormsOfCorruption"Lobbying",AndSayIt'sBecauseOfRepublicansWhenTheMediaNotice
>>136648
https://www.c-span.org/search/?searchtype=All&query=prison+reform
prison/criminal justice reform videos and talks. Libs have always given some lip service or a bone about it but if you notice even conservatives were weighing in during Obama's 8 years.
>>136530
legal or illegal you commit a serious crime good-bye. not worth my money.
>>136455
>Private Prisons
This is still retarded
Who thought these was a good idea
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>>136675
>legal or illegal
So now we're going to start deporting American citizens? Do you guys have a single sensible suggestion between you a to offer regarding how to improve our country? Something that doesn't involve fucking with other people's lives for the sake of spite insofar as possible?
>>136722
In English?
>>136675
People like you are why the prison system is fucked beyond repair
>>136455
NOW WAIT ONE GODDAMN MINUTE
didnt we get rid of private prisons last year?
>>136728
I think preventing criminals from coming in is a good start.
I think reforming removing welfare and food stamps is a good second move.
People need to learn to help themselves in this life. Learned helplessness is what pushes people into crime.
>>136736
I can translate /pol/speak:
He's saying:
>"I wonder who could be behind this post"
>implying it's a jewish person
>>136745
undone with a few squiggly lines of Trump's presidential pen
>>136747
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for one day
Give a man a fishnet, and he will eat for years
Refuse to help thy neighbour, and accuse Obama when things go wrong.
>>136795
>Teach a man to fish for himself and he'll be fed for the rest of his life.
>unless everything's privitized and charity is highly discouraged.
>>136795
The man should pick himself by his own bootstraps and carve a fishnet out of them, and then go barefoot.
>>136470
This, glad peeps are paying attention once
>>137776
He's wrong though. It wasn't the same under Bush or Obama or Clinton.
>>137784
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1569219
>>137809
>huffpost
Are you kidding?
Obama era
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-prisons-idUSKBN1622NN
U.S. reverses Obama-era move to phase out private prisons
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2016/08/27/obama-break-with-private-prisons-doesn-far-enough/ZP48cPVPqOXrYhtZDZWXzN/story.html
Obama’s break with private prisons doesn’t go far enough
Bush era
http://prospect.org/article/bailing-out-private-jails
But while most state correctional managers are taking a hard look at the private-prison industry, the federal government has stepped up to fill the
breach.
>>137814
Obama didn't do a single good thing in his entire 8 years
not even kidding