DoomsdaysCW<p>The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivatePrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrivatePrison</span></a> Industry Looks Forward to Soaring Profits Thanks to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s Budget</p><p>The $45 billion for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ImmigrationDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImmigrationDetention</span></a> in the "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBeautifulBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBeautifulBill</span></a>" represented a long-sought win for private prisons.</p><p>Matt Sledge, July 10 2025 </p><p>Excerpt: "In the 2024 election cycle, employees and PACs affiliated with the publicly traded industry behemoths GEO Group and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoreCivic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoreCivic</span></a> contributed overwhelmingly to Republicans and Trump. </p><p>"Republicans received 92 percent of $3.7 million in contributions affiliated with GEO Group and 96 percent of the $785,000 in contributions affiliated with CoreCivic, according to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OpenSecrets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSecrets</span></a>, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group that tracks official disclosures. When Trump won, the two companies gave $500,000 each to his inaugural committee.</p><p>Even though the industry kept profiting from the Biden administration — despite a supposed ban on private prisons — one advocate said it was clear to her why companies went all-in on Trump."</p><p>Read more: <br><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/07/10/corecivic-trump-big-beautiful-bill/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/07/10/co</span><span class="invisible">recivic-trump-big-beautiful-bill/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/t6cYB" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/t6cYB</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICERaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICERaids</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEKidnapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEKidnapping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassDeportations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GatorGitmo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GatorGitmo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlligatorAlcatraz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlligatorAlcatraz</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeoGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeoGroup</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TomHolman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TomHolman</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivatePrisonIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrivatePrisonIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndefiniteDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndefiniteDetention</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndefiniteDetentionClause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndefiniteDetentionClause</span></a></p>