[LWVNM Action] Fwd: [immigration] Fwd: Private prisons are cashing in on family separation

Tue Mar 18 12:50:53 MDT 2025

>From LWV California

Meredith Ross Machen
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Meredith.machen at gmail.com

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From: Carolina Goodman <carolina.goodman at sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Subject: [immigration] Fwd: Private prisons are cashing in on family
separation
To: Carolina Goodman <carolina at lwvlosangeles.org>

FYI
LWV’s position on Criminal Justice states:
"Eliminate private prisons. Until space in public prisons is available,
ensure that private prisons comply with all of the standards for state-run
jails and prisons."
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— Carolina Goodman

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Trump and the GOP claim to be going after fraud and abuse when they cut
funds for families. The real abuse is to be found in Pentagon contracts and
for-profit detention centers
[image: Hollywood Democrats]

Daniel ,

In Trump’s America, private prisons and the Pentagon are set to cash in on
family separation and cutting food assistance and healthcare. We need
budget priorities that *fund communities, not private prisons*.

The budget already passed by the house slashes funding for food assistance,
healthcare, and education, while funneling *an additional* *$175 billion *into
ICE and *$150 billion more* into the Pentagon. And who benefits? Not
families. Not communities. The winners are private prison corporations and
Pentagon contractors raking in billions in taxpayer dollars.

In the words of rap star and music producer *Ty Dolla $ign,*

*”It's simple: put the money into schools and not prisons.”*

Instead of investing in affordable housing, public health, or hunger
relief, Republicans are *handing billions to the private prison industry*,
which profits off mass deportations and family separations. The same
corporations running these detention centers -- where immigrants face
abuse, neglect, and solitary confinement--are *boasting record profits.*

   -

   The CEO of GEO Group, a major private prison company, boasts they’re
   seeing *"unprecedented interest"* in new contracts, saying “we’ve never
   seen anything like this before.” Their $2 million in donations to
   Republican PACs is paying off for them nicely.
   -

   Meanwhile, private detention centers hold people in horrifying
   conditions, as a report from the National Immigrant Justice Center exposed
   practices such as punitive solitary confinement, lack of due process, and
   discrimination against LGBTQ+ detainees.

This is a humanitarian crisis fueled by corporate greed. Families are being
torn apart, while executives and politicians cash in. *If Congress is
looking for ways to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, they should start by
looking at private prisons and the Pentagon.*
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*Send a direct message to Congress to reject extra funding for ICE and the
Pentagon, and urge them to invest in our communities instead.*
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SIGN AND SEND
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*Bryan Stevenson, *executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative,
tracks private prison profits, and he sees an increasing degree of
collusion with governments:

*“Private prison builders and prison service companies have spent millions
of dollars to persuade state and local governments to keep more people
locked up so that they can earn more profits. Private profit has corrupted
incentives to improve public safety.”*

Meanwhile, the Pentagon -- which has never passed a full audit -- continues
to waste trillions. Defense contractors like *Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and
Raytheon rake in half of the nearly $900 billion defense budget* every
year. Their overcharges can be as much as 40%.

It’s unconscionable that at the same time, Congress is pushing through
draconian cuts to programs that actually help families survive, such as
food assistance for needy families (SNAP), healthcare for low income
families who cannot access it in other ways, and education programs that
help lift families out of poverty.

We cannot allow corporate greed to take precedence over human lives. We
must tell Congress to stop funding family separation and war profiteers --
invest in our communities!

The real waste, fraud, and abuse, is to be found in the Pentagon and
private prisons -- not with families struggling to survive.

*Sign and send your message now: No more billions for ICE and defense
contractors. Fund food, healthcare, and education instead!*
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Thank you for standing up against this injustice.

- HollywoodDemocrats.com Team
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