Private Prison Lobbyists Are Raising Cash for Hillary Clinton

[votesparks]

Source: The Intercept

As immigration and incarceration issues become central to the 2016 presidential campaign, lobbyists for two major prison companies are serving as top fundraisers for Hillary Clinton.

Corrections Corporation of America and the Geo Group could both see their fortunes turning if there are fewer people to lock up in the future.

Last week, Clinton and other candidates revealed a number of lobbyists who are serving as “bundlers” for their campaigns. Bundlers collect contributions on behalf of a campaign, and are often rewarded with special favors, such as access to the candidate.

Richard Sullivan, of the lobbying firm Capitol Counsel, is a bundler for the Clinton campaign, bringing in $44,859 in contributions in a few short months. Sullivan is also a registered lobbyist for the Geo Group, a company that operates a number of jails, including immigrant detention centers, for profit.


Read more: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/23/private-prison-lobbyists-raising-cash-hillary-clinton/

[Sienna86]

1. This saddens me

If there is an industry that I believes causes harm to others, particularly our young people, it is this industry.

[mpcamb]

5. Ditch 'em Hillary, ditch 'em.

Bargains with the devil...

[billhicks76]

14. Whoa...Nothing More Evil

Anyone associated or working with private prisons is wretched, scum of the earth. This better not be true.

[Sunlei]

42. my very small retirement savings 'stock' account has 100 shares of private prison stock

that stock alone has increased in value about 50% in only 6 years. If I had that money in a 6 year bank CD it would have earned only about (at the most!!) $100.

[awoke_in_2003]

33. Ditch em hell

The policies of her husband helped make them rich. Time for payback

[appalachiablue]

40. THURGOOD MARSHALL, JR. who worked in the Clinton administration is a board member of

the CCA, the CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, the largest private corrections company in the US. He is of course the son of Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court Justice and respected Civil Rights lawyer known for his work on the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, (1954), the desegregation of public schools.

Thurgood Marshall, Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall,_Jr.

CCA, Corrections Corporation of America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_America

Thurgood Marshall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall



Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993), Civil Rights attorney, first African American Supreme Court Justice.

[Sunlei]

43. everyone knew the 'for profit' prisons would generate a fabulous profit from our Federal money.

all the people in our jails with 20, 40, year mandatory sentences are a gravy train the 'for profits' love! They even have todays police slapping on 'starter felony charges' for them.

now its the Mexicans and people from the 'americas' even children who sit in 'for profit' internment camps and generate a fabulous profit from Federal money, for the 'for profit' Empire America has become.

[appalachiablue]

49. 'Starter felony crimes'? wow. Maybe 'pre-crime' thinking/doing too. Those longer sentences are

very lucrative, prisoners labor for pennies and more profit $. Police state as said, yet Obama has announced some slight changes I think recently. About time after 20+ years.

[Sunlei]

50. yes, the 'assault a police officer who beats the crap out of U and crushing the air out of you,

is a Felony charge. Same for trying to get the attack dog away from ripping off your face, Felony!

[appalachiablue]

35. The 1994 Violent Crime Control Law Cinton signed funded more prisons, 100,000 police,

established harsher sentences and created 60 new death penalty offenses. Clinton has apologized since May and July at an NAACP conference saying "I made criminal justice worse" and "we have too many people in prison."

BILL CLINTON APOLOGIZES FOR CRMINAL JUSTICE POLICIES: WE HAVE TOO MANY PEOPLE IN PRISON
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128027936

[Sunlei]

44. "I made criminal justice worse" and "we have too many people in prison."

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, votesparks.

[Kelvin Mace]

3. Yet somehow,

it's Bernie Sanders who has a "black voter" problem.

[Yo_Mama]

9. Oh, please, please. Let's not do this to each other.

In the end, Sanders' and Clinton's campaigns are going to help the final nominee. Any one who is out there talking about real issues to the voters is a plus in the final campaign.

Please let's not get into the habit of trying to run each other's candidates down.

[appalachiablue]

45. Quite disturbing and odd, all things considered I agree. But with powerful networks & $

even those most preposterous tales can be spun it seems.

[votesparks]

4. It makes this especially rich

Hillary Clinton decries 'systemic racism' in law enforcement

[Doctor_J]

6. The candidate who wants to end mass incarceration?

Seems hard to believe

[Yo_Mama]

7. Certain groups will donate to any and all candidates.

They often donate to both R and D candidates.

It says nothing about Clinton, but more about the group itself - they want a seat at the table.

[billhicks76]

15. Are You Delusional?

How can you rationalize this? I thought it was only Republicans that lived in a bubble. It's all about money. If you accept money from military contractors then you support war abroad. If you accept it from the lowest of the low, private prison companies, then you support a war on the American people. Instead of justifying this crime against humanity you should be spending your time ending this injustice or at least acknowledging it here on this discussion. We are rapidly losing members of this party who want to start on offshoot party because of ostrich head in the sand attitudes like this.

[Yo_Mama]

18. Well, as a candidate you know what your priorities are.

Both sides accept money from GS, for example.

Accepting money doesn't mean you have to support that group's initiatives.

Also, campaigns often fail to realize immediately when truly noxious groups offer a donation. It's not often that KKK shows up and wants to fund you - that one you know you should refuse. Later on, some of these donations are returned.

[billhicks76]

21. Bundlers Not Known?

I beg to differ.

[Yo_Mama]

25. Yeah, but they want the money!

Politics is a money game.

[votesparks]

8. If she really didn't want this money to say anything about her

She would return it. It's like taking money from slave traders.

[grasswire]

10. yes

Because America's prisons are the modern day "plantations."

Shame on the Clintons. Bill set it up; Hillary perpetuates it.

[billhicks76]

16. Bill Did Set It Up

I watched Gov Jerry Brown call him out on it during the Roundtable PBS primary debate in '91. Bill turned beet red and threatened him on live TV. He muttered," You don't know what you're messing with Jerry." I took it as meaning Bill was the opponent chosen by Bush Sr in case Perot stayed in the race and messed up the plan. Fools follow Clinton at the peril of our country.

[appalachiablue]

19. +1 I've seen that ugly exchange between Clinton and Jerry Brown in '91. But way too late-

My little bother in NY disliked Clinton then; I learned why much later.

[billhicks76]

23. Clinton Was A Trojan Horse

And his closeness to the Bush family not only betrays him now but he doesn't even care that people know because most are too thickskulled to see what it means.

[Nihil]

37. That's one of those brilliant posts ...

> Clinton Was A Trojan Horse
> And his closeness to the Bush family not only betrays him now but
> he doesn't even care that people know because most are too
> thickskulled to see what it means.

... where you can change the tense and change the gender but the truth remains!

[ananda]

11. Sigh.

This speaks to one of the tools of the plutocracy to keep Blacks
in jail and unable to vote ...

... yet didn't Clinton just say that Black lives really do matter?

[Nihil]

39. "... yet didn't Clinton just say that Black lives really do matter?"

"Talk is cheap."

or

"A tree is known by its fruit; a person by their deeds."

[dembotoz]

12. if only bernies campaign did not remind me so much of the childrens crusade

heartwarming but quite the disaster.

[appalachiablue]

24. That's a h*ll of a thing to say. Fighting to expose child labor abuse and trying to

allay the effects of 35 years of Reaganomics, the decline of the middle class, extreme income inequality and more are both "a heartwarming disaster", really? I hope your condescending, offensive comment isn't what it seems.

[historylovr]

30. That's okay. The French were over-confident too, before Agincourt.

[marble falls]

13. How do Hillary Clinton's supporters reconcile themselves with this stuff???????

[billhicks76]

17. They Don't...They Rationalize.

It's all about appearance with them because the substance is rancid. I'm sorry if that rubs them the wrong way but speaking truth to power is a little more important then someone whining about getting along.

[appalachiablue]

28. Elites of either party sleep well I believe, from drawing attention to 3rd world poverty causes,

philanthropy efforts, etc. which is all fine, yet the money trail part is confounding. It's always existed.

[SoapBox]

20. K & R

She's all about that corporate money.

[jalan48]

22. Say it ain't so Hillary.

[arcane1]

26. One can not be on the side of CCA and call oneself a liberal, or a progressive. n/t

[cantbeserious]

27. HRC - A Friend To Corporations In Need

eom

[bravenak]

31. NOOOOOOOO!

Please for the love of dsb, I hope she returns it. She may not know.

[olddots]

32. we have a problem with this system

If I as much as ponder what might have been going on during Bill's govenorship I'm deemed a troll .

[darkangel218]

34. Heh.. I'm not surprised. Nt

[Darb]

36. That's because they KNOW she can win.

Derrrrrrrrrrr

[RoccoR5955]

48. She has to be elected the candidate first.

Primaries are still a way off.

[Sunlei]

38. lol, republicans and those holding private prison stocks must be LOLin' their ALAC lovin' asses off.

[Little Tich]

46. Not good. n/t

[RoccoR5955]

47. It has become quite apparent to me that some will take money from anyone/anywhere n/t