private prison company lobbyists

Stitt said the state has 72 agencies, and pointed to their hiring third-party lobbyists. He said the hiring of qualified agency heads by stout leadership would help reduce agency ... I am opposed to private prisons. We have contracts to make sure they are getting so many prisoners a year or [we pay them].

At the end of the day under this system it's an indisputable fact that it's the same corporate lobbyists representing the likes of the oil companies, weapons manufacturers, prison industry, pharmaceutical and insurance companies and banks frequent both the White House and the Congress. They partner with ...

Universal health care would improve the American economy, cut mortality rates and end the chokehold big pharma and insurance lobbyists have on Capitol ... 100 percent clean power by 2035; end the private prison industry; barring corporate political action committee money; and protecting net neutrality.

... an Obama-era policy aimed at getting private operators out of the federal prison system. Despite numerous horror stories about abuses suffered by inmates in private prisons, Sessions thinks the prisons are a good idea. Two of his former Senate aides now work as lobbyists for prison-industrial complex.

In February, his firm, Ballard Partners, moved into a bigger office on the fourth floor to accommodate the new lobbyists Ballard has hired since the election of one of his former clients, President Donald Trump. At the firm's first staff meeting in the new offices, Ballard and five of his Washington lobbyists sat in ...

The carefully choreographed stop sent a clear signal to the foreign governments, lobbyists, and corporate interests keen on currying favor in ..... The company poured $450,000 into Trump's campaign and inauguration after Obama announced plans to end all federal contracts with private prisons. GEO also ...

Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on Montana's only private prison, Crossroads Correctional Center in Shelby. ... Critics of private prisons also are weighing in, saying now's the time for the state to abandon private operation of Crossroads, as the state embarks on criminal-justice reforms ...

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a big-business think-tank that authors "model legislation" at the local, state and national level that benefits corporations at the expense of everyday people; their greatest hits make for scary reading -- you can thank ALEC for ag-gag laws, ...

Scott or Secretary Gobeille would have any conversation at all with Corecivic or its lobbyists is deeply concerning. • Despite the illusion of short-term savings, getting entangled with private prison contractors has never saved us money. In the past, Vermont's private prison contracts with Corecivic/CCA ...

Kemba Smith was just a sophomore in college when she met her “knight in shining armor” on campus. Over time, he became controlling, abusive and eventually, looped her into his drug trafficking operation by forcing Smith to carry weapons and cash for him. Her boyfriend was eventually killed, but Smith ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – While the news media nationally are facing new perils with the rise of fake news on social media and attempts to discredit legitimate reporting, press freedom advocates in Oklahoma say legislative threats this year to the public's access to government center mostly on agencies ...

Private Prisons. A 2016 report from In The Public Interest detailed how just a few mega-banks – including Wells Fargo – are providing the financial underpinning for the entire private prison industry. Wells Fargo had extended lines of credit, provided loans, and underwritten bonds for the two largest private ...

"When I look at a lot of the bills this year, they are bills to give government bodies the opportunity to sell their records or restrict access to records to help the government ... make money," said Thomas, a lobbyist who has worked with lawmakers for more than 20 years to defeat or narrowly tailor bills that may ...

Private prisons are a problem because introducing profit into the criminal justice calculus means, well, lobbyists. ... Aside from draining state coffers with unreasonable contracts, Corrections Corporation of America and other private prison companies (obviously motivated by higher profit margins) have ...

Questions about former Brownback chief of staff-turned-lobbyist David Kensinger's role in securing a Kansas Department of Corrections contract for private prison management company CoreCivic led to Hensley's work on the bill. Kensinger and two others registered as legislative lobbyists on Nov. 13, 2017 ...

Phil Scott's administration proposed partnering with a private prison corporation to build a 925-bed facility in northwestern Vermont, the governor and two ... to Washington, D.C. According to Scott spokesperson Rebecca Kelley, the 15-minute meeting included CoreCivic's Ohio-based lobbyist, Dan Kaman, ...

Private prison company CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, is already angling to build the 925-bed prison that Gov. Phil Scott's ... In an apparent effort to position itself for that contract, CoreCivic lobbyists are making overtures to key state lawmakers. The company has four ...

The private prison industry has thrived under Trump. Shortly after the election, stocks soared for the two largest private prison corporations, GEO Group and CoreCivic. Trump's Department of Justice reversed a plan to reduce the use of private prisons in February 2017, paving the way for new government ...

So far, the only people who have complained are the legislators whose amendments he has torpedoed and pro-marijuana lobbyists. That criticism has never troubled Sessions in his 21-year career (representing two districts). But recent polling indicates that 83 percent of Texas voters now favor legalizing ...

Call it a coincidence, but two of Sessions's former aides went on to become lobbyists for private prisons prior to Sessions taking these controversial stances. Even Nashville Sheriff Daron Hall isn't a fan of what Sessions is proposing. “It's unfortunate that the attorney general, or anybody for that matter, ...

Certainly, private prisons, Big tobacco and Big pharma, to name a few, are major reasons why this procedure has been stultified every now and then. These players are robust lobbyists, and the parties that regulate the flow of funds don't want to see any of it moved to other firms, particularly those they do ...

"The problem is, it created a wage disparity with the employees of our private prisons that are partners of us as well." Lawmakers reached a ... Handy Technologies is represented by Brian Ballard, a leading Tallahassee lobbyist and Republican fund-raiser and by former Rep. Chris Dorworth of Orlando, who ...