Profiting from Pain: The CoreCivic Board and the $3.4M CEO Payday

What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Mark 8:36

• Immigrants locked up in Core Civic operated ICE detention center in California city have described the facility as “a torture chamber”, “a zoo” and “hell on earth”, saying they were confined in filthy cells and suffered medical crises without help. — Guardian / ACLU
• CoreCivic revenue doubles!. CoreCivic’s board members receive an annual compensation ranging from $220,000 to $380,000 including cash retainers, meeting fees, and significant stock awards.
• The Republican Big Beautiful Bill also tripled the base budget for ICE and allocated $45 billion to build new immigration detention centers. — Prospect excerpts
• Billions of taxpayer dollars are funneled into these private prisons, which then pour millions into politicians’ campaigns to keep their growth going. — MuckRock

Meet the CoreCivc Board members paid lavishly while Americans are jailed in terrible conditions. Are you buying beauty products from them while they jail your relatives and neighbors?

• **Thurgood Marsall Jr.** — Partner at Bingham McCutchen LLP
• **Stacey Tank** — CEO of Bespoke Beauty Brands (BBB), Jason Wu Beauty and KimChiChic Beauty.
• **Catherine Hernandez-Blades** — Former SVP Aflac. Currently Board of CoreCivic and TriDelta

CoreCivic Board of Directors

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Private Prisons Cash In on Trump’s Mass Deportations

GEO Group and CoreCivic are boasting of ‘unprecedented growth opportunities’ as they partner with ICE to surveil and imprison immigrants. Executives at both GEO Group and CoreCivic announced revenue increases of over 100 percent compared to the same period last year, described buybacks of millions of dollars’ worth of stock, and outlined plans for the day after Trump achieves his goal of deporting one million immigrants. — Prospect

The Corrections Corporation of America launched the era of private prisons in 1983, when it opened an immigration detention center in an former motel in Houston, Texas. Today the Nashville-based company houses more than 66,000 inmates, making it the country’s second-largest private prison company. — Mother Jones

‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help — The Guardian

Take Away: As 14 people die in ICE custody so far in 2026, CoreCivic executives see record bonuses. Follow the blood money from government contracts to the board’s inner circle. Hold directors of for-profit prisons accountable for the harm they cause.

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