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Corporations You’ve Never Heard of are Making Millions from Mass Incarceration
Loaded on Aug. 28, 2015
by James Kilgore
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2015, page 58
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Clothing,
Electronic Monitoring,
Commissary.
Location:
United States of America.
By James Kilgore, Truthout
Likely the most well-known prison profiteers in the United States are the Corrections Corporation of America and The GEO Group. Between them, these two firms pulled in about $3.3 billion last year running scores of private prisons and immigration detention centers.
However, these …
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