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February 20, 2013
Private Prison/Immigrant Detention Giant Name Florida Atlantic Football Stadium
The N.Y. Times reported yesterday on a very interesting development in sports philanthrophy.???Florida Atlantic University, in Boca Raton, has?renamed its football stadium after the GEO Group for a $6 million gift.?GEO Group is a private prison corporation.? One critic compared the naming to "calling something Blackwater Stadium. This is a company whose record is marred by human rights abuses, by lawsuits, by unnecessary deaths of people in their custody and a whole series of incidents that really draw into question their ability to successfully manage a prison facility.?
Accoring to the Times, GEO Group's?"income is generated mostly from state and federal prisons and detention centers for illegal immigrants. The company owns or runs more than 100 properties that operate more than 73,000 beds in sites across the world. . . .? The company has been opposed by civil liberty and human rights groups and immigrant rights organizations. It has been cited by state and federal regulators and lost a series of high-profile lawsuits."
KJ
February 20, 2013 in Current Affairs, Sports | Permalink
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