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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 Trumps 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 nations largest for-profit prison operators, donated $250,000 to support Trumps inaugural festivities, Pablo Paez, the companys vice president of corporate relations, told USA TODAY.
Thats 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 Trumps 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
(11,686 posts)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
(1,606 posts)that these horrible scumbags would be scheming to further profit from human misery.