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The Prison Industrial Complex: Mapping Private Sector Players APRIL 2018 | 1 About the Corrections Accountability Project The Corrections Accountability Project (CAP) at the Urban Justice Center is a non-profit criminal justice advocacy organization committed to eliminating the influence of commercial interests on the criminal legal system and ending the …
ACLU - re Private Military and Security Companies, UN Working Group, 2017 Written Statement of the American Civil Liberties Union Before the United Nations Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries as a Means of Violating Human Rights and Impeding the Exercise of the Right of Peoples to Self Determination …
Negative Report Foreshadows End of G4S Juvenile Operations in UK by Derek Gilna Following a damning report, a private security company lost its contract to run a juvenile detention center in the United Kingdom, then later said it intends to sell off its UK-based juvenile operations. Until May 2016, the …
Florida Courthouse Employees Commit Crimes with “Alarming Regularity” by A local news station reported on March 29, 2016 that Joseph Safonte, 72, was placed on desk duty after becoming the target of an internal investigation into the theft of items from the lost and found at the courthouse in Broward …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Demonstrators Protest Gates Foundation’s $2.2 Million Investment in GEO Group by Joe Watson About two dozen immigrants’ rights advocates picketed outside the headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle on April 10, 2014, protesting the Foundation’s investments in the GEO Group, the second-largest private prison company in …
UK Security Company’s Long History of Controversy, Misconduct by Derek Gilna According to its website, G4S is the world’s “leading global integrated security company.” Besides providing security services, it also operates private prisons and immigration detention centers, provides electronic tagging (monitoring) for offenders on community supervision and has a prisoner …
List of major for-profit prison services and companies U.S. FOR-PROFIT PRIVATIZED CORRECTIONAL SERVICES January 2017 – Not a full listing Facility Operations CoreCivic (Corrections Corp. of America) The GEO Group Management & Training Corp. Community Education Centers LaSalle Corrections Emerald Companies Medical / Mental Health Care Corizon Health (Beecken Petty …
Report Says Prison Privatization Expanding Internationally by Joe Watson A recent report from The Sentencing Project, based in Washington, D.C., concludes that the mass-privatization of American prisons has encouraged, not deterred, many countries—including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Brazil—to hand over the responsibility of its prisoners to for-profit companies. …
Article • May 7, 2014
Security Giant Admits $38 Million Fraud by James Kilgore G4S, which bills itself as “the world’s largest security company,” has encountered rough going in the carceral marketplace in recent weeks. The latest episode in the troubles of this British-Danish security giant came with its public admission on November 18 that …
Mangaung and Beyond: Private Prison Exemplifies South Africa’s Criminal Justice Woes by James Kilgore In recent months a battle has erupted at Mangaung prison in South Africa. Mangaung, located near the city of Bloemfontein, is one of the country’s two privately-operated correctional facilities. Managed by British-based G4S, which bills itself …
Florida Awards Contracts Putting Sex Offenders on GPS Supervision; Other States to Follow by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has awarded three contracts for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite monitoring of sex offenders. The contracts come on the heels on legislation that allocated $3.9 million over a three-year period …