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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211516804198724150.post-77708233889000988622013-04-08T23:23:00.002-07:002014-03-16T23:44:11.654-07:00GEO's Record of Discrimination and Human Rights Abuses<ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<a href="http://indian2006.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/prison-industry-profiteering-from-the-arbitrary-detention-of-immigrants/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">As reported by</span></a><a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/usa-jailed-without-justice?page=show" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> Amnesty International</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">, the </span><a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights-prisoners-rights/big-business-inhumane-detention-immigrants" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ACLU</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="http://www.npr.org/2010/10/28/130833741/prison-economics-help-drive-ariz-immigration-law" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">NPR</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="http://www.socialpolicy.org/index.php/component/content/article/30-online-only-features/479-wall-street-a-our-campaign-to-decriminalize-immigrants" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Social Policy</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">, and </span><i><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/173120/how-private-prisons-game-immigration-system#" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">The Nation</span></a></i><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">, the private prison industry lobbies for anti-immigrant legislation</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">
in order to build more immigration detention facilities, fill beds, and
turn a profit. <a href="http://www.azsos.gov/scripts/Lobbyist_Search.dll/ZoomPPB_REP?PPB_ID=105423&REP_YEAR=2009">GEO is associated with the lobbying group, ALEC</a> (the American Legislative Exchange
Council), </span><a href="http://www.npr.org/2010/10/28/130833741/prison-economics-help-drive-ariz-immigration-law" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">which helped draft</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> Arizona's anti-immigrant SB1070 legislation, and, after it passed, </span><a href="http://www.npr.org/2010/10/28/130833741/prison-economics-help-drive-ariz-immigration-law" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">gave funds</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> to 83% of the legislators who voted for it. From 2003 to 2012, </span><a href="http://www.followthemoney.org/database/lobbyistclient.phtml?lc=100516&y=0" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">GEO spent more than $2 million on lobbying and campaign contributions in Florida alone</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">. From 2004 to 2012, it </span><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000022003" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">spent $2.7 million</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> lobbying the federal government. In its</span><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312512090269/d259590d10k.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> 2010 SEC filings</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">,
GEO stated that "Immigration reform laws which are currently a focus
for legislators and politicians at the federal, state and local level
could materially adversely impact us" (p. 34). </span><a href="http://www.fau.edu/mediarelations/releases1012/101207.php" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">As one of the top 50 graduates of Hispanic students in the nation</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, FAU is supporting a company that supports laws that detain and deport its students' families. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">GEO lobbies for harsh sentencing laws for non-violent offenses, which have led to mass incarceration of people of color</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">. The US imprisons more people than any country in the world. </span><a href="http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1525/sp.2011.58.2.257?uid=3739600&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101845442767" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1 in 3 Black men will be incarcerated in their lifetime</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="http://matadornetwork.com/change/how-us-drug-laws-have-created-a-new-racial-caste-system-infographic/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">most for non-violent drug crimes</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, leading some to call the prison system </span><a href="http://newjimcrow.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">"the new Jim Crow.</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">" <a href="http://www.azsos.gov/scripts/Lobbyist_Search.dll/ZoomPPB_REP?PPB_ID=105423&REP_YEAR=2009">GEO is affiliated with the business lobbying group, ALEC</a> (American Legislative Exchange Council), </span><a href="http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bankingonbondage_20111102.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">which has drafted 85 model bills and resolutions</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">
that required tougher criminal sentencing, expanded immigration
enforcement and promoted prison privatization. GEO is transparent that
its business model depends on mass incarceration, stating in its</span><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312512090269/d259590d10k.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> 2010 SEC filing</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">,
"the demand for our correctional and detention
facilities and services...could be
adversely affected by changes in existing criminal or immigration laws,
crime rates in jurisdictions in which we operate, the relaxation of
criminal or immigration enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction,
sentencing or deportation practices, and the decriminalization of
certain activities that are currently proscribed by criminal laws or the loosening of immigration laws" (p. 34). <i>The Nation</i> magazine has called
FAU's stadium </span><a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/173166/football-stadium-becomes-ground-zero-fight-against-new-jim-crow" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">"Ground Zero in the Fight Against the New Jim Crow."</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Other sources: </span><a href="http://matadornetwork.com/change/how-us-drug-laws-have-created-a-new-racial-caste-system-infographic/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Fact sheet from the NAACP</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Infographic on The New Jim Crow</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">GEO has a disturbing record of human rights violations not only in the legislation it supports, but also in its facilities</span><span style="color: #1155cc;">.<span style="color: black;"> In one facility in Mississippi alone, GEO was responsible for <span id="goog_1779575216"></span></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">rampant physical and sexual abuse of minors and adult prisoners and denial of medical care<span id="goog_1779575217"></span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">. The judge who ruled against GEO in Mississippi said</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/order.pdf#page=5" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">"The sum of these actions and inactions… paints a picture of such horror as should be unrealized anywhere in the civilized world."</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> Geo claims it was not managing the facility in Mississippi when these reports were made, but this is a lie: </span><a href="http://www.aclu.org/capital-punishment-prisoners-rights-racial-justice/aclu-sets-record-straight-chronology-geos" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">the ACLU has the real timeline here</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">.
Another <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/1B1XCX_U2ZcsNgcQZiYvIkLboQpe7UfKzmszxIEvmkz3dWS2wT4V60IoSe0yD/edit">independent report on a different GEO facility in Mississippi</a> also found that it limited, and at times denied, healthcare (p.6).These Human Rights abuses may be caused by GEO’s attempt to cut costs: “Privately
managed prisons attempt to control costs by regularly providing lower
levels of staff benefits, salary, and salary advancement than
publicly-run facilities (equal to about $5,327 less in annual salary for
new recruits and $14,901 less in maximum annual salaries). On average,
private prison employees also receive 58 hours less training than their
publicly employed counterparts. Consequently, there are higher employee
turnover rates in private prisons than in publicly operated facilities” (<a href="http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_Too_Good_to_be_True.pdf#page=10">source</a></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">). Further, low pay and turnover may “contribute to the higher levels of violence seen in the private sector” </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">(<a href="https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bankingonbondage_20111102.pdf#page=24">source</a>).</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Other sources:</span><a href="http://stopowlcatraz.blogspot.com/2013/03/geo-fact-sheet.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Sourced fact sheet</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span></span><a href="http://ec.libsyn.com/p/9/9/c/99c7eb0a89902866/Viridriana_Martinez.mp3?d13a76d516d9dec20c3d276ce028ed5089ab1ce3dae902ea1d01ce8334d7cd5babc0&c_id=4778162" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Interviews with Viridiana from Dream Activist</span></a></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211516804198724150.post-69673395695350238682013-03-31T09:51:00.004-07:002013-03-31T11:02:41.956-07:00Open Letter to President Saunders and Board of Trustees Chairman Anthony Barbar from the Stop #Owlcatraz Coalition<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By signing a $6 million stadium-naming contract with human rights abuser the GEO Group, you betrayed the stated values of Florida Atlantic University. You violated our principles of </span><a href="http://www.fau.edu/strategicplan/values.php"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“equal rights and equal justice,” “mutual regard for the rights and liberties of all persons,” “social responsibility,” and “ethical standards in all areas of human activity”</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and disregarded many voices within the university community. To avoid addressing this injustice, you have gone to the media and exaggerated the actions of student demonstrators. In the face of these distractions, we, the Stop #Owlcatraz Coalition, remain committed to disseminating the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The GEO Group has a well-documented </span><a href="http://stopowlcatraz.blogspot.com/2013/03/geo-fact-sheet.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">history of human rights abuses</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Amnesty International </span><a href="http://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/the-golden-goose-immigration-detention/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">reports that</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> GEO lobbies for anti-immigrant legislation. In addition, </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-niaz-kasravi/for-profit-prisons-american-american_b_2768183.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the NAACP has voted to abolish all private prisons</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> due to the industry’s lobbying for </span><a href="http://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/banking-bondage-private-prisons-and-mass-incarceration"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mass incarceration</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, because the private prison industry’s business model depends on growing numbers of prisoners and lengthening sentences. (GEO itself states this </span><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312512090269/d259590d10k.htm#tx259590_2"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, on page 34.) We, a coalition of FAU students, faculty, staff, and alumni, hold our university’s values dear. We will not stand idly by as our university’s stadium advertises a company that</span><a href="http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_Too_Good_to_be_True.pdf#page=10"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">understaffs their facilities</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><a href="https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bankingonbondage_20111102.pdf#page=29"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">under trains and underpays their staff</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/1B1XCX_U2ZcsNgcQZiYvIkLboQpe7UfKzmszxIEvmkz3dWS2wT4V60IoSe0yD/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">limits (and at times denies) health care</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (page 6), and</span><a href="https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bankingonbondage_20111102.pdf#page=25"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">creates and perpetuates dangerous conditions</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to maximize profit. We stand unwavering in our demand for you to uphold our university’s commitment to justice by reversing the stadium naming rights deal with GEO Group immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Friday, March 22, about a dozen students gathered on the MacArthur campus with signs reading “We, the HC [Honors College] politely request an academic discussion”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><img height="180px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/8lg7R0F5tpVLwk_5DAeGstWULRbfDnT-UtJ3_HFW7b5Ntk-LsHA2ixvj2iigi9RO9iy8CSFlD2LuP1BbHuhpDih57-LLOUWsdY1U9NISlkdPyvHNCSzvwenF8Q" width="181px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty at FAU requested an academic dialogue. President Saunders, you declined. And, in your haste to avoid addressing the demonstrators, their request, and the facts about GEO that we and the media have consistently presented, you </span><a href="http://upressonline.com/2013/03/fau-president-mary-jane-saunders-allegedly-clips-owlcatraz-student-protester-with-her-car/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hit a student demonstrator</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with your car. Then, without hesitation, you left the scene; drove the wrong way out of the parking-lot and ran two stop signs while five police officers stood by. The student demonstrator is an </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/britni-hiatt/5a/1b2/631"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">exemplary member</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the student body, an </span><a href="http://www.fau.edu/sil/leadership/EliteOwls.php"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elite Owl Leadership Ambassador</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> an Honors College senior, and an integral member of several active and award-winning clubs who bridges two campuses. She and her family still have not heard from you. Ignoring the truth does not make it go away, and speaking to the press before your students and affected individuals leads us to further question your priorities. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The truth is that</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> you, President Saunders, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">evaded an academic conversation about the GEO Group, physically harmed an exemplary student, and then </span><a href="http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_s_palm_beach_county/boca_raton/president-saunders-speaks-publicly-for-first-time-about-controversies-at-fau"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rationalized your behavior with allegations of fear.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><a href="http://stopowlcatraz.blogspot.com/2013/03/commitment-to-non-violence.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Images here.)</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Chairman Barbar, you were not present, yet </span><a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/fau-police-student-protesting-geo-gift-bruised-by-/nW3FX/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">demanded an apology from students</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in an attempt to obscure the facts of the hit and run. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.fau.edu/strategicplan/values.php"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">demonstrate peacefully because we believe in human rights and in FAU, and we respect deeply every person’s own right to safety. Free speech is not a privilege at FAU - it is a basic human right enshrined not only in the Constitution, but in FAU’s </span><a href="http://www.fau.edu/strategicplan/values.php"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">statement of values</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The truth remains unchanged: we are, and always have been, committed to nonviolence as both a tactic and an ideal.</span></div>
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<img height="343px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/zAhgPEbpJ8EuXjDJzlogFL7UpdexBlkaV5xAXQ0lAj9geFh37hzwvRtIFNW4Ka_jNZS9x43uDv5eQiRGtAPpe9u1nzrZevRJMegvn0jHtX3YPhWrLS4Uy650" width="480px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speaking truth to power in the face of injustice is not an act of aggression; it is an act of integrity. We remain committed to FAU’s values. We ask you, President Saunders and Chairman Barbar, to do the same.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">President Saunders and Chairman Barbar, it is not too late to end your efforts to divert attention from the truth. The University Faculty Senate of FAU, over 67,000 people who have signed petitions (</span><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/fau-drop-the-geo-group"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">these</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="http://www.beyondbars.org/stop_geo_stadium"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">these</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="http://activism.thenation.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/index.sjs?action_KEY=9900"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">these</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), and human rights organizations such as the </span><a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/sponsoring-florida-college-football-team-cant-whitewash-private-prison"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ACLU</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the </span><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ebc/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=282"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ella Baker Center for Human Rights</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> all stand with the truth. You still have the chance to stop this onslaught of negative publicity for our university by breaking the deal with GEO; we call on you to do so.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211516804198724150.post-26118072891136911902013-03-30T16:24:00.001-07:002013-03-30T16:39:18.458-07:00GEO Fact Sheet<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><b>GEO
Fact Sheet </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2012
(June): OSHA fines totaling $104,100 for violations at GEO group
prison in Meridian, Mississippi. </span></span>
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“<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This
employer knowingly put workers at risk of injury or death by failing
to implement well recognized measures that would protect employees
from physical assaults by inmates,” Clyde Payne, OSHA’s director
in Jackson, Miss., said in a statement. (PBP, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">8/25/12;
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">US
Dept of Labor
<a href="http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=22536">http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=22536</a>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2012:
Inmate awarded $1.2 million for negligence resulting in violence that
cost him his vision in one eye. (PBP 9/13/12</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">October
2011-February 2012: Five preventable deaths in GEO-operated East
Mississippi Correctional Facility, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a
prison for people living with mental illness. (Daily Kos, 4/29/12;
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/29/1086699/-Billion-dollar-GEO-prison-for-profit-group-abandons-its-Mississippi-cesspool">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/29/1086699/-Billion-dollar-GEO-prison-for-profit-group-abandons-its-Mississippi-cesspool</a>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2011
(June): </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A
jury verdict for $6.5 million was returned against the Company in a
wrongful death action brought by the Personal Representative of the
Estate of Ronald Sites, a former inmate at the Company’s Lawton
Oklahoma Correctional Facility (GEO Annual Report, 2012, p. 87). </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
inmate was strangled to death by his cellmate in 2005 (PBP, 8/25/12).
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2011:
Florida Department of Children and Families cite neglect that led to
Florida man’s death. ((PBP 8/25/12)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2011:
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">New
Mexico Department of Corrections fines GEO Group$1.1 million for
understaffing one of its prisons (The American Independent, 11/15/11;
<a href="http://americanindependent.com/205722/new-mexico-fines-prison-company-for-inadequate-staffing-2">http://americanindependent.com/205722/new-mexico-fines-prison-company-for-inadequate-staffing-2</a>)
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2011:
Justice Policy Institute report highlights GEO’s political
strategies of working to make money through harsh policies and longer
sentences. (</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Justice
Policy Institute</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">)
Strategies include lobbying elected officials.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2011
(August): </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">State
inspectors are unable to get into South Bay Correctional Institute in
Palm Beach County to do a surprise drug sweep. After 20 minutes of
trying to get someone’s attention, including shining flashlights at
security cameras, the state inspectors give up and leave. (FCIR,
8/26/11)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2011:
Corrections secretary, New Mexico hired previously by GEO as a warden
at Lea County Correctional, the very facility for which the company
is now being fined. (Am Independent, 11/15/11)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2010:
Immigrant who overstayed visa denied asthma inhaler in immigrant
detention center in Deerfield Beach. (Based on interview with victim;
PBP, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">8/25/12</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">).
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2010:
Lawsuit in Arizona by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
for sexual harassment and molestation of female employees by GEO
Group manager. (</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>USEEOC;
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PBP,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">8/25/12</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2010:
DOJ investigation of Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility.
Findings (2012): </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Youth
were sexually preyed upon by staff and all too frequently suffered
grievous harm, including death. (US Department of Justice,
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/March/12-crt-352.html)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2008:
Seattle University School of Law Report claims </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">immigrants
at a Washington State detention center run by the GEP group Inc. are
being held in conditions that violate both international and US laws
(ABC News, 8/5/ 08;
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3211516804198724150#.UUt_eoU78YI">http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5466166&page=2#.UUt_eoU78YI</a>).
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2008:
Inmate dies after a month of solitary confinement without proper
alert system for his epileptic condition. Uprising in Reeves County
Detention Center, Texas. Concerns: 5 deaths bet 8/08 and 3/09 (Texas
Observer, 10/ 8/09</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>;
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.texasobserver.org/the-pecos-insurrection/">http://www.texasobserver.org/the-pecos-insurrection/</a>).
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2008:
Two Inmates, one with schizophrenia and a thyroid condition and the
other with cystic fibrosis, die after being denied their medication.
(Delco Times, 10/16/08; also:</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Philadelphia
Weekly & Fox News, respectively</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2008:
United Methodist Church Resolution 3281 - </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Welcoming
the Migrant to the US, which advocated the "elimination of
privately-operated detention centers."
<a href="http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=4951419&ct=6480621">http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=4951419&ct=6480621</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2007:
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Texas
canceled an $8 million contract with GEO and closed the Coke County
Juvenile Justice Center. Inspectors found feces on floors and walls,
padlocked emergency exits and overuse of pepper spray on young
inmates. (PBP, 8/25,12). </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2007
(October): Texas Youth Commission removed inmates from one of the
company’s juvenile facilities after an official visited and
determined the conditions were “unsafe” (ABC News, 8/5/ 08). </span></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2007
(August): </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">several
hundred detainees at the facility fell ill with abdominal pain and
diarrhea from food poisoning. Detainees told that they had to wait
till morning till the clinic opened, although they were supposed to
have round the clock care. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(ABC
News, 8/5/ 08). </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2007:
Lawsuit filed over medical negligence in North Carolina. Neglected
conditions include severe, festered tooth decay requiring surgery,
and boils indicative of MRSA improperly diagnosed by company nurse as
“a sign of aging” to save medical costs. (</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PBP,
2/28/13</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2007:
Lawsuit by mentally ill prisoner citing denial of crutches, withheld
medication, isolation and abuse at Pearsall Texas. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
(<a href="http://closereeves.weebly.com/learn-about-geo-group-scandals.html">http://closereeves.weebly.com/learn-about-geo-group-scandals.html</a>;
<a href="http://www.texasprisonbidness.org/lawsuits/">http://www.texasprisonbidness.org/lawsuits/</a>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2006:
Sued for overbilling State of FL of 12.7 million in false claims.
(GEO Annual Report 2006) </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2005-2009:
At least 8 died </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">GEO
Group-operated George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Delaware
County, Pennsylvania, the state's only privately run jail (Daily Kos,
4/29/12). </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2005:
Contract with state of Michigan cancelled after the daily cost per
prisoner for the private facility was higher than that for 33 of the
state’s 37 publicly-operated facilities.” (Grassroots Leadership,
12/20/12;
<a href="http://grassrootsleadership.org/releases/2012/12/national-and-state-groups-urge-governor-not-repeat-failed-prison-venture">http://grassrootsleadership.org/releases/2012/12/national-and-state-groups-urge-governor-not-repeat-failed-prison-venture</a>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2001:
Inmate incarcerated for nonviolent drug offense is beaten to
death—corrections officers report that warden and assistant warden
watched and laughed. Inmate’s family later files suit and GEO pays
$42.5 million. (</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PBP,
8/25/12</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>;
</i></span></span><a href="http://www.texasprisonbidness.org/geo-group/settlement-reached-record-br"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">www.texasprisonbidness.org/</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>geo</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">-</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>group</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">/</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>settlement</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">-reached-record-br</span></span></a><i><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
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