Thread by @CREWcrew

There’s a lot of focus on the facilities used to house immigrant children, but there’s not enough focus on the private prison companies that run some of them. Let’s talk. 1/7
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A CREW investigation found that the two largest private prison companies have sought to influence politics and policy in 39 states, contributing millions of dollars to campaigns at local, state, and federal levels while hiring dozens of lobbyists 2/7
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There’s big money to be made by private prison companies with immigrant jails. ICE spends more than $2 billion a year on them. 3/7
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When Trump announced his immigration policy plans, private prison stock jumped. 4/7
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Few companies have seen as dramatic a boost in fortune after Trump’s election as the private prison contractor GEO Group. GEO, which backed Trump’s campaign, won the contract for the first new immigration detention center to be built in the Trump era. 5/7
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Transparency is severely lacking with the private prison companies running immigrant detention centers. We’re backing legislation that would subject private prisons to FOIA requirements. 6/7 congress.gov/bill/115th-con…

We still don’t know nearly enough about the for-profit prison companies running immigrant detention centers. But we do know how tied their fortunes are to the Trump administration. 7/7