Gleaning Facebook: For Profit Prisons

From Ronald Cain's Facebook:

 For-profit prisons

President Obama issued a directive stopping the use of private prisons. President Trump has now reversed Obama's directive after groups donated to his campaign.

Private prison companies, which stand to make big gains under President Trump’s tough new immigration orders, have contributed big sums to pro-Trump groups, including the organization that raised a record $100 million for his inauguration last month.

GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison operators, donated $250,000 to support Trump’s inaugural festivities, Pablo Paez, the company’s vice president of corporate relations, told USA TODAY.

That is on top of the $225,000 that a company subsidiary donated to a super PAC that spent some $22 million to help elect Trump. Another prison operator, CoreCivic, gave $250,000 to support Trump’s inauguration, recently filed congressional reports show.

For-profit prison companies' hopes for significant gains under the Trump administration already are coming to fruition. The Justice Department rescinded the Obama administration order to phase out the use of private-prison contracts in the federal Bureau of Prisons.