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-- 2016 --

November 17:
How Wall Street Firms Make Money From Donald Trump’s Prison Policy
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/how-wall-street-firms-make-money-donald-trumps-prison-policy-2447283

November 18: Private Prisons Get a Boost From Trump

Investors anticipate a boom in immigrant detention centers.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-18/private-prisons-get-a-boost-from-trump

November 18:
In August, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a statement announcing it would stop contracting with private prisons to house inmates serving federal sentences. The news sent the stock of Corrections Corporation of America, the world’s largest private prison company, plummeting. The share price stayed down until the day after Donald Trump’s election, when it jumped 40 percent. The company’s main competitor, Boca Raton, Fla.-based GEO Group, rose 30 percent.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-18/private-prisons-get-a-boost-from-trump

November 18:
The Nashville-based company [Corrections Corporation] changed its name to CoreCivic in October. Along with its prison business, the company oversees detention centers used to house thousands of undocumented immigrants picked up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-18/private-prisons-get-a-boost-from-trump

December 5:
Going into Election Day, few industries seemed in worse shape than America’s private prisons. Prison populations, which had been rising for decades, were falling. In 2014, Corrections Corporation of America, the biggest private-prison company in the U.S., lost its contract to run Idaho’s largest prison, after lawsuits relating to understaffing and violence that had earned the place the nickname Gladiator School.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/05/trump-sets-private-prisons-free

December 5:  ...
prison companies aren’t the only ones rubbing their hands. The stock price of for-profit schools has also rocketed. Still, the outlook for private prisons is particularly rosy, because many Trump policies work to their benefit.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/05/trump-sets-private-prisons-free

December 5: In a study of prisons in nine states, Chris Petrella, a lecturer at Bates College, found that private ones avoid taking sick and elderly inmates, since health care is a huge expense for prisons. They employ a younger, less well trained, and less well paid workforce and have higher inmate-to-guard ratios, all of which saves money but also makes prisons more dangerous. When you consider that the government still spends money monitoring private prisons, and that it’s stuck running the parts of the system that private companies thought were money losers, the case that private prisons save money looks shaky.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/05/trump-sets-private-prisons-free

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January 25: Trump may reinstate secret CIA 'black site' prisons: U.S. officials
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-prisons/trump-may-reinstate-secret-cia-black-site-prisons-u-s-officials-idUSKBN15922L

January 25: The Trump administration is preparing a sweeping executive order that would clear the way for the C.I.A. to reopen overseas “black site” prisons, like those where it detained and tortured terrorism suspects before former President Barack Obama shut them down.

President Trump’s three-page draft order, titled “Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants” and obtained by The New York Times, would also undo many of the other restrictions on handling detainees that Mr. Obama put in place in response to policies of the George W. Bush administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/cia-detainee-prisons.html

February 23: The Trump administration is rolling back an Obama-era plan to phase out the federal government's use of private prisons. 

Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo Thursday to the Bureau of Prisons rescinding the Obama administration's Aug. 16 order advising the bureau not to renew any contracts with private prisons, according to a copy of the letter.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320915-trump-admin-rescinds-plan-to-reduce-private-prisons

February 24: Senator Bernie Sanders has slammed the use of private prisons for federal inmates, which was reinstated by the White House yesterday.

Senator Sanders, who ran for election as a Democrat in the 2016 election, said that the move meant private prisons were now able to make “huge profits by building more prisons and keeping even more Americans in jail”.

He also said that private prisons in America needed to go: “Corporations should not be profiting by incarcerating our fellow Americans.”
http://www.thejournal.ie/bernie-sanders-prisons-3256624-Feb2017/

February 24: Private prison stocks up 100% since Trump's win
http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/24/investing/private-prison-stocks-soar-trump/index.html

March 16: Trump's support for private prisons could hit pitfalls

The Trump administration's plan to reconsider privately run prisons faces a web of complications amid litigation and allegations the industry cuts corners at the expense of security.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-reversal-on-private-prison-use-faces-pitfalls

March 16: How to Keep Closing Prisons in a Trump Era

Despite the rhetoric from the president and the Justice Department, the movement to resist mass incarceration has a way forward.  
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/03/how-to-keep-closing-prisons-in-a-trump-era/519411/

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July 26: Underfunded, Overcrowded State Prisons Struggle With Reform

It took a correctional officer's death for Delaware's legislature to address its prison problem.

The slow downward trend in mass incarceration could change under President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The harsher federal policies and rhetoric introduced by the new administration – such as pushing for mandatory minimum sentences, recommitting to private prisons and cracking down on immigration – will likely raise the federal prison population ...
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2017-07-26/understaffed-and-overcrowded-state-prisons-crippled-by-budget-constraints-bad-leadership

August 10: According to Business Insider, the people who run private prisons are excited about the financial possibilities of Trump's immigration policies—especially the fact that these raids are happening all over the country and not just along the southern border.
https://www.gq.com/story/trump-private-prisons

August 18: ... one year ago ... from that now-rescinded [Obama] memo, the situation for these prisons looks largely like what it was before the Obama-era Justice Department sought to change the status quo.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/politics/private-prison-department-of-justice/index.html

October 25: In recent years, the private prison company GEO Group has held its annual leadership conference at venues near its Boca Raton headquarters. But this year, the company moved its gathering to a Miami-area golf resort owned by President Trump.

The event last week, during which executives and wardens gathered for four days of meetings, dinner receptions and golf outings at the luxurious 800-acre Trump National Doral, followed an intense effort by GEO Group to align itself with the president and his administration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-business-booming-under-trump-private-prison-giant-gathers-at-presidents-resort/2017/10/25/b281d32c-adee-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.a1ed37a13eb4

November 8: Private Prisons Lock Up Thousands Of Americans With Almost No Oversight
http://time.com/5013760/american-private-prisons-donald-trump/

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March 7: President Trump on Wednesday launched, by executive order, the Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry. The president enacted the council with the aim of reducing crime while looking for ways to "provide those who have engaged in criminal activity with greater opportunities to lead productive lives."

Why it matters:
Jared Kushner has been pushing for criminal justice reform and just last week, the White House released its prison reform priorities to Congress. This is another big step toward implementing prison reform in the federal criminal justice system, however some criminal justice reform advocates — including Sen. Chuck Grassley — are not settling for prison reform without sentencing reform.
https://www.axios.com/trump-signs-an-executive-order-86179ace-4751-4295-ab4c-85ec210f986f.html

April 3: Immediately following Donald Trump’s election, private-prison stocks soared. The $5-billion industry had just been severely hit by a policy decision from the Obama administration, and it was facing a groundswell of public opposition. But with Trump voicing support for prison privatization and promising an immigration crackdown, operators have been presented with a boon where they had feared a bust.
https://qz.com/948509/trump-turnaround-on-private-prisons-raises-questions-on-donors-from-senators-chris-van-hollen-and-cory-booker/

May/June: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is a Boom Time for Private Prisons

Give me your tired, your poor, your per diem…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/trumps-immigration-crackdown-is-a-boom-time-for-private-prisons/

May 11: Private Prison Company Geo Group Gave Generously to Trump and Now Has Lucrative Contract
https://www.newsweek.com/geo-group-private-prisons-immigration-detention-trump-596505

May 14: The Trump administration just rescinded Obama-era protections for transgender prisoners

It’s just the latest of the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ moves.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/14/17351636/trump-transgender-prison-lgbtq

May 18: Trump promises prison reform that’s ‘best of its kind anywhere in the world’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/trump-promises-prison-reform-thats-best-of-its-kind-anywhere-in-the-world

May 22: A bipartisan prison reform bill backed by President Donald Trump sailed through the House on Tuesday — but it could be left to languish in the Senate amid internal Republican squabbles over the scope of the legislation.

The bill, which would provide training programs for prisoners with the goal of reducing recidivism rates, easily passed the House in a 360-59 vote. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has signaled he’s unlikely to bring up the bill in the Senate unless Republicans can resolve their differences.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/22/house-easily-passes-prison-reform-bill-backed-by-white-house-603333

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May 22: Congress’s prison reform bill, explained

The First Step Act has Trump’s support — but faces some Democratic opposition.

The bill would not reform or reduce how long people are sentenced to prison for, which has been the prime target of criminal justice reformers over the past few years. Instead, the bill focuses on rehabilitating people once they’re already in prison by incentivizing them, with the possibility of earlier release, to partake in rehabilitation programs. As Kushner explained at the White House summit, “The single biggest thing we want to do is really define what the purpose of a prison is. Is the purpose to punish, is the purpose to warehouse, or is the purpose to rehabilitate?”

... politicians and activist groups have some complaints about certain provisions in the bill (which you can read more about in their letters). But the primary concern isn’t really what’s in the bill; it’s what’s not in the legislation.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/22/17377324/first-step-act-prison-reform-congress

May 24: At a prison-reform summit held at the White House last Friday, Donald Trump declared that “America is a nation that believes in the power of redemption.” For the last several weeks, his Administration has pushed Congress to support a bipartisan bill known as the First Step Act, which aims to better prepare inmates to reënter society by incentivizing participation in drug-treatment and job-training programs. The law would allow nonviolent offenders who earn “good-time credits” to serve the final days of their sentences in halfway houses or home confinement. Last month, Jared Kushner announced the Administration’s support for the bill in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, writing that the six million Americans in local and federal prisons are included among “the forgotten men and women” that Trump vowed to fight for during his Presidential campaign. “Get a bill to my desk, and I will sign it,” Trump promised. The House passed the bill this week.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trumps-prison-reform-push-has-divided-washington-on-a-rare-bipartisan-issue

June 4: Despite Backlash for Working With Trump, Activists Say Prison Reform Can’t Wait
https://theintercept.com/2018/06/04/trump-administration-prison-reform-first-step-act-clemency/

June 8: Trump Sending Overflow Of Immigrants To Federal Prisons
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/06/08/immigrants-federal-prisons/

June 22: These Private Prison Companies Are Already Profiting Off of Trump’s Order on Family Separation

By ordering that immigrant families be detained together indefinitely, Trump has provided a windfall to private prison operators.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/21234/these-private-prison-companies-are-already-profiting-off-of-trumps-order-on

June 27: Immigrants Trump sent to federal prisons are facing disease outbreaks
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/wjbmdx/immigrants-trump-sent-to-federal-prisons-face-disease-outbreaks

July 3: Trump’s border policy making private prisons great again
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/07/03/commentary/world-commentary/trumps-border-policy-making-private-prisons-great/#.W9DqHaUoHTQ

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July 4: Demoralized Federal Prison Officers Feel Left Behind By ‘Law And Order’ Trump

Workers at the Bureau of Prisons say it is just a matter of time before the belt-tightening turns deadly.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/federal-prison-bureau-trump_us_5b2bf738e4b00295f15a990a

August 1: President Donald Trump was lauded by inner-city pastors, including one who said he may go down as the “most pro-black president” in recent history, during a White House roundtable on Wednesday that was focused on efforts to reform the prison system.

Trump told the group, which included pastors and bishops from across the country, that his administration has been making progress on efforts to make it easier for prisoners to re-enter society and find work.

“When we say hire American, we mean all Americans,” Trump said.
https://apnews.com/e807334359144684bf23f0f89ff750c0

August 9: Trump Meets with Governors to Address Prison Reform, Recidivism
https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-meets-with-governors-to-address-prison-reform-recidivism/4522509.html

August 17: Under fire from activists, Geo Group funnels donations to Florida Republicans
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-reg-geo-group-donations-20180810-story.html

August 20: 'The push starts now': With Trump's support, prison reform finally has a shot in Congress

“The real game changer will be the president,” said a vice president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/push-starts-now-trump-s-support-prison-reform-finally-has-n901801

August 23: Donald Trump Rejects Jared Kushner's Prison, Sentencing Reform Proposal Before Midterms
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-jared-kushner-prison-sentencing-reform-1088715

Undated: The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base,[1] also referred to as Guantánamo, G-Bay, GTMO and America's Gulag (/ˈɡɪtm/), which is on the coast of Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Since the inmates have been detained indefinitely without trial and several detainees have allegedly been tortured, the operations of this camp are considered to be a major breach of human rights by Amnesty International.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

October 16: Conservatives Encourage President Trump to Press Forward on Criminal Justice Reform
http://rightoncrime.com/2018/10/conservatives-encourage-president-trump-to-press-forward-on-criminal-justice-reform/

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October 24: Hours after a live explosive device was found at its New York City headquarters, CNN president Jeff Zucker called out the Trump White House for its rhetoric against the media.

“There is a total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media. The President, and especially the White House Press Secretary, should understand their words matter,” said Zucker in a statement. “Thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that.”

A live explosive device was sent to CNN’s New York office on Wednesday, and suspicious packages were found at the residences of the Clintons, the Obamas and George Soros.
https://www.thewrap.com/jeff-zucker-condemns-trump-white-house-following-bomb-scare-their-words-matter/

November 14: Trump announces support for bipartisan prison reform
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/14/politics/trump-prison-reform/index.html

December 21: Trump’s prison plan to release thousands of inmates

Sweeping changes to the federal prison system will allow tens of thousands of federal inmates to be released from prison over the next 10 years, but there’s little data about who or where they are now.

The legislation signed by President Donald Trump on Friday makes big changes to the treatment and rehabilitation of low-level federal prisoners.

Qualifying Inmates — mostly people who have committed low-level drug offenses — can earn credits to be released from prison early and serve the remainder of their sentence in home confinement or halfway houses if they participate in the plan’s anti-recidivism programs such as job training, education and faith-based classes.
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article223414935.html


December 25: What Inmates Are Saying About Trump Possibly Going to Prison

"There would have to be some kind of protective custody situation."
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzv9wn/what-inmates-are-saying-about-trump-possibly-going-to-prison

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