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  1. The #PrivatePrison Industry Looks Forward to Soaring Profits Thanks to #Trump’s Budget

    The $45 billion for immigration #detention in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" represented a long-sought win for #PrivatePrisons.

    by Matt Sledge, July 10 2025

    "The private prison industry saw its influence wane under Joe Biden, but it remains dominant in the business of immigration detention. So when President Donald Trump signed the so-called 'Big, Beautiful Bill' on July 4, dedicating $45 billion to immigration detention with a goal to double or triple the population behind bars, it was a huge payoff.

    "The victory was in the works for years. A private prison company handed consulting and lobbying gigs to Trump’s allies, its political action committee was the first to max out its donation to Trump, and industry executives had already made plans to reopen shuttered prisons — laying the groundwork for what they promised investors would be an incarceration bonanza.

    "In the 2024 election cycle, employees and PACs affiliated with the publicly traded industry behemoths #GEOGroup and CoreCivic contributed overwhelmingly to #Republicans and Trump.

    "Republicans received 92 percent of $3.7 million in contributions affiliated with GEO Group and 96 percent of the $785,000 in contributions affiliated with #CoreCivic, according to #OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group that tracks official disclosures. When Trump won, the two companies gave $500,000 each to his #inaugural committee."

    Read more:
    theintercept.com/2025/07/10/co

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/t6cYB

    #USPol #TrumpSucks #BigUglyBill #BigBeautifulBill #PrisonState #SilencingDissent #IndefiniteDetention #ICE #protesters

  2. The #PrivatePrison Industry Looks Forward to Soaring Profits Thanks to #Trump’s Budget

    The $45 billion for #ImmigrationDetention in the "#BigBeautifulBill" represented a long-sought win for private prisons.

    Matt Sledge, July 10 2025

    Excerpt: "In the 2024 election cycle, employees and PACs affiliated with the publicly traded industry behemoths GEO Group and #CoreCivic contributed overwhelmingly to Republicans and Trump.

    "Republicans received 92 percent of $3.7 million in contributions affiliated with GEO Group and 96 percent of the $785,000 in contributions affiliated with CoreCivic, according to #OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group that tracks official disclosures. When Trump won, the two companies gave $500,000 each to his inaugural committee.

    Even though the industry kept profiting from the Biden administration — despite a supposed ban on private prisons — one advocate said it was clear to her why companies went all-in on Trump."

    Read more:
    theintercept.com/2025/07/10/co

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/t6cYB

    #USPol #ICERaids #ICEKidnapping #MassDeportations #GatorGitmo #AlligatorAlcatraz #GeoGroup #TomHolman #PrivatePrisonIndustry #IndefiniteDetention #Fascism #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #IndefiniteDetentionClause