The private prison industry includes for-profit companies that provide correctional services. Most well-known are companies such as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA, which has rebranded as "CoreCivic"), the GEO Group and Management & Training Corp. (MTC), which own and operate prisons, jails and other detention facilities. CCA and GEO are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
A wide variety of other correctional services are also privatized, and thus monetized -- including prison medical care, mental health care, food services, transportation services, pharmaceutical services, telephone services, money transfer services, commissary/canteen services, video visitation, secure email services and more. Together these companies make up the private prison industry, which directly profits and benefits from incarceration.
We are interested in hearing from whistleblowers, including current or former private prison employees, who are aware of contract violations or fraud by private prison firms. For example, contracts may require that private prison operators provide specific services or programs that they are not providing, or specific staffing levels they have failed to meet. If you have documentation about contract violations or fraud at private prisons, please contact us confidentially via our contact page. Note that whistleblowers may be entitled to financial compensation for exposing fraud by government contractors.
Private prison, detention companies spending on Alabama politicians
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Group calls on R.I. to ban private prisons as protests over Wyatt emerge
Legislature votes to ban private prisons, sends bill to Newsom
Bill would ban Michigan from housing inmates in private prisons
Sexual Assault Complaints at Otay Mesa Detention Center Have Surged
'An uphill battle': Harvard students urge school to pull investments that support prisons
City Council Approves Temporary Halfway House Contracts
‘Don’t go there’: Kansas using private prison where Hawaii inmates have been murdered
Leavenworth detainees reach $1.45M settlement over recorded attorney phone calls
Other Resources
"I Worked In A Private Prison — They Are A Cancer On American Society"
August 2016 Dept. of Justice review of federal private prisons
ACLU report "Banking on Bondage"
Fordham law journal report on private prison cost savings/shifting
Mother Jones article - 4 months as an undercover private prison guard
