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tenderfoot

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Wed Oct 25, 2017, 04:37 PM Oct 2017

Private Prison Giant Parties At Trump Resort After Landing $110M ICE Detention Center Contract



In recent years, the private prison company GEO Group has held its annual leadership conference at venues near its Boca Raton headquarters. But this year, the company moved its gathering to a Miami-area golf resort owned by President Trump.


The event last week, during which executives and wardens gathered for four days of meetings, dinner receptions and golf outings at the luxurious 800-acre Trump National Doral, followed an intense effort by GEO Group to align itself with the president and his administration.




During last year’s election, a company subsidiary gave $225,000 to a pro-Trump super PAC. GEO gave an additional $250,000 to the president’s inaugural committee. It also hired as outside lobbyists a major Trump fundraiser and two former aides to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, one of the president’s most prominent campaign backers.


Shortly after Jeff Sessions reversed Obama’s phase-out of private prisons, GEO Group landed a $110 million federal contract to build an immigrant detention center. Since then their stock value has tripled. Obama’s move came after widespread reports of corruption and mistreatment of prisoners by GEO Group
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more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-business-booming-under-trump-private-prison-giant-gathers-at-presidents-resort/2017/10/25/b281d32c-adee-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html
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Private Prison Giant Parties At Trump Resort After Landing $110M ICE Detention Center Contract (Original Post) tenderfoot Oct 2017 OP
But the GOP LOVES corruption and mistreating prisoners. louis-t Oct 2017 #1
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