Why is a Florida for-profit prison company backing bipartisan criminal justice reform?
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Tampa Bay Times
December 7, 2018

“A bipartisan push in Congress backed by President Donald Trump to slow America’s rising prison population has a puzzling supporter: a Florida-based for-profit prison company. GEO Group, one of the country’s largest detention companies, says reducing prison recidivism is in line with their missions. But the company is also well positioned to profit off a new-found interest in post-prison rehabilitation.”

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