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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
-- 2017 --
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/
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/
-- 2018 --
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
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
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 (/ˈɡɪtmoʊ/),
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/
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
-- 2019 --
-- 2020 --
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