USA: Private prison operators CoreCIvic and Geo Group
Campaigners have had a number of significant wins against CoreCivic & GEO. Investigate’s page on CoreCivic and Geo Group has a timeline under the section ‘Economic Activism Highlights’.
Campaign timeline: 2001-2021
In the USA, private prison operators have housed immigrants for decades. Campaigns targeting the corporations operating these prisons escalated after Trump’s “zero tolerance immigration policy”, which saw the separation of children from their parents and, later, the incarceration of children (including babies) in detention centers.
Campaigners have had a number of significant wins against CoreCivic & GEO. Investigate’s page on CoreCivic and Geo Group has a timeline under the section ‘Economic Activism Highlights’.
ESG-Transparency led the campaign that pushed CalSTRS and CalPERS, two of the largest and most influential institutional investors in the world, to divest from CoreCivic & GEO over their human rights abuses of migrants and other detainees. ESGTI’s Educators for Migrant Justice campaign also focused on engagement with United Rentals and General Dynamics. ESG-Transparency also helped pass AB-32, the California legislation banning for-profit prisons.
