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Teachers’ Unions Divest Stock Holdings in Private Prisons
Loaded on April 2, 2019
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2019, page 60
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
GEO Group/Wackenhut.
Location:
United States of America.
by David Reutter
Pension funds for teachers are abandoning their investments in private prisons. The divestures follow an appeal by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation’s second-largest teacher’s union, for public pension funds to liquidate their holdings in for-profit prison companies and other firms involved in immigrant detention. ...
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