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    Private Prison Woes

    Sep 01, 2019 2 minutes
    —GUS BOVA

    ONALD TRUMP IS A PRIVATE PRISON KIND OF GUY. America’s two for-profit titans of incarceration—GEO Group and CoreCivic—pitched in $500,000 for his inauguration. Almost immediately after Trump took office, his Justice Department reversed an Obama-era move to partially phase out federal use of the companies, sending their stocks soaring.

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