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.
Lawsuit: Private prison contractor abandoned parolees at flooded halfway house during Harvey
The Troubled History Of The Company Tapped To House Hundreds Of Kansas Inmates In Arizona
Congressional Black Caucus Institute Takes CoreCivic Cash, Boosts Policies That Help Private Prisons
Private Prisons Now Face 87.4% Financing Gap as Banks Continue to Flee Industry
Jewish Group Plans #NeverAgain Protest Outside GEO Group Headquarters in Boca Raton
Private prisons were supposed to thrive under Trump — then came a backlash
Harvard Students Are Demanding More Than Divestment From Prison Profiteers
Ulster County jail contract lowers cost of inmate calls, gives each inmate access to tablets
Private prison company sued in death of 1 year old migrant child
Geo Group, company that runs prisons, opens new $57 million Boca headquarters
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
