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Shareholder Resolutions Would Stop Private Prison Firms from Housing Separated Immigrant Families
Loaded on Jan. 8, 2019
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2019, page 44
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Immigration.
Location:
United States of America.
In November 2018, shareholder resolutions were filed with CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, and The GEO Group – the nation’s two largest private prison companies – that would prohibit them from housing immigrant detainee children who have been separated from their parents, or parents separated from their ...
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