DC: Private prison company GEO Group responded Wednesday with its own analysis it says shows some of its facilities are safer than comparable federal facilities after accusations from Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other liberal lawmakers that the company lobbies to fill its prisons.
“For over three decades, GEO has been a successful service provider to the federal government with a longstanding record of delivering high-quality service to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) under both Democratic and Republican Administrations. Importantly, the services we provide for ICE today are no different than the service we provided for eight years under President Barack Obama’s Administration,” GEO said in a letter reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
The letters were hand-delivered to Warren’s and other senators’ offices Wednesday. Warren and others, including Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, sent the letter to GEO dated Nov. 15 requesting copies of its contracts with ICE for detaining immigrants, reviews of conditions at its facilities and more. No Republicans were signatories of the letter, which was also sent to another private prison company, CoreCivic.
The senators’ letter had a deadline of Nov. 30, just over two weeks after the letter was sent, for their requests. GEO responded on Nov. 21 that it could not comply that soon but would “provide a response, in coordination with ICE, at a reasonable time thereafter.”
“The Obama Administration, citing high rates of safety and security violations at private prisons, announced in an August 2016 memorandum that DOJ would reduce the federal government’s reliance on private prisons,” the senators’ letter stated. “But just one month after President Trump’s inauguration, DOJ rescinded the memorandum, and has since — largely through changes in immigration policy — contributed to significant increases in private prison profits.” more here
Lock her up in Geronimo Bay…er, Guantanamo…
Violent criminals should be made employees of NASA and put under my supervision.
I will start a new branch of NASA for Alien outreach.
We will not waste money on telescopes or fancy equipment.
We will seek to make contact with passing Aliens by writing ‘Howdy’ across the entire Antarctic continent, with trenches dug entirely by hand
This just in:
North Korea & USA
Deal or No Deal…
NO DEAL!
A future occupant complains about her upcoming accommodations.
Those closest to spending time alone in some very special places for crimes they believed unknown tend to spend their time planning their fun that surely won’t be in the sun. They had spent important time exploiting the trust of innocent people but now must meet their maker.