RESOLUTION
RESOLVED: That the stockholders of the Company request that the Board of Directors
adopt the following policy, to be implemented no later than December 31, 2019:
1.
CoreCivic shall adopt a policy of not accepting immigrant detainee children
(persons under the age of 18), who have been separated from their parent or parents
by any U.S. government entity, for housing at any facility owned or operated by the
Company.
2.
CoreCivic shall adopt a policy of not accepting adult immigrant detainees
(persons over the age of 18), who have been separated from their child or children by
any U.S. government entity, for housing at any facility owned or operated by the
Company.
3.
If CoreCivic houses at any of its facilities any immigrant detainee children or
adults described in sections 1 or 2 above at the time the policies set forth in sections 1 and
2 are implemented, the Company shall: a) immediately move to modify all such contracts
to comply with the above policies or, if such modification is not possible within a sixmonth period, seek to withdraw from or terminate such contracts as soon as possible,
including invoking any early termination options or clauses in such contracts, and b)
diligently work to make arrangements to safely house such immigrant detainees that
do not involve housing them at any of the Company’s facilities.
Supporting Statement
The controversial issue of separating immigrant detainee parents from their children in
the United States has made headlines across the country. 1
While CoreCivic has said it does not house immigrant detainee children who have been
separated from their parents, the Company may change that policy in the future or may
enter into future contracts to house separated immigrant children and/or parents.
The Company has had a controversial history with respect to housing immigrant
detainees. A CoreCivic employee was convicted of sexually abusing multiple female
detainees at the Company’s T. Don Hutto Residential Center. 2 Immigrant detainees have
staged protests and hunger strikes at CoreCivic detention centers. 3 There have been at
least 32 deaths at Company-operated immigrant detention facilities, including at least

1

www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383/what-we-know-family-separation-and-zero-tolerance-at-the-border
www.texasprisonbidness.org/2011/09/former-hutto-supervisor-pleads-guilty-federal-charges-molestingdetained-women
3
www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2016/nov/7/hunger-strikes-immigrant-detainees-expose-abuses-iceprivate-detention-centers; www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/force-feed-hunger-striking-immigrantdetainee_us_57325786e4b096e9f09314ca
2

seven suicides. 4 The Company is currently being sued for using immigrant detainees to
perform work for wages as low as $1.00 per day. 5
These incidents pose risks to CoreCivic’s reputation and thus to shareholder value, and
raise liability concerns. Should the Company decide in the future to house immigrant
parents or children who have been separated, that also would create reputational harm.
Accordingly, this resolution requires CoreCivic to enact policies that prohibit the
Company from housing immigrant detainee parents and/or children who have been
separated in order to reduce reputational harm and liability risks to the Company, and
to protect shareholder value.

4

www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2015/jul/7/32-deaths-cca-operated-immigration-detention-facilitiesinclude-least-7-suicides/
5
www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/immigrant-detainees-claim-they-were-forced-to-cleanbathrooms-to-pay-for-their-own-toilet-paper/