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Meet the Prison Profiteers.

Prison Profits
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September 23, 2013

Prison Profiteers is a video series profiling the powerful companies and individuals who are profiting off locking up too many people for too long. Get to know the profiteers and then take action to fight their abuses.
Produced in partnership with The Nation and Beyond Bars.


Global Tel-Link

This price-gouging phone company profits of love, charging prisoners up to $17 for a 15-minute phone call. Tell the FCC to set prices families can afford.

Child waiting on phone-call from prison
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Corizon

How does this for-profit prison healthcare company keep its costs low and profits high? By failing to provide sick prisoners with needed care.

Get rich quick plan
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The Bail Industry

If you're arrested, you can pay a hefty sum or sit in a cell waiting for trial. Don't have the funds? The for-profit bail industry can help – for a big fee, of course.

Mel Gibson and Lindsay Lohan arrest and booking images.
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The GEO Group

This for-profit prison company already pulls in billions by locking people up. Fight the dangerous, profit-hungry legislation that could help GEO rake in even more.

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Law Enforcement

Police officers are forcing people to choose between time behind bars or turning over their money and property – all without ever making an arrest. Fight asset forfeiture abuse.

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CoreCivic (Formerly Corrections Corporation of America)

The country's biggest for-profit prison company calls human beings in lock-up a "revenue stream." Don't let them profit off imprisoning even more.

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With 2.3 Million People Incarcerated in the US, Prisons Are Big Business - Liliana Segura, The Nation

When , it creates a powerful financial incentive, not just to push for policies that fuel mass incarceration but to cut corners in the services they've been hired to provide.


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