Geo Group Case
In a cynical ploy for jobs and revenue, Gary, Indiana's mayor, Democrat Karen Freeman-Wilson, is currently pushing a proposal that would allow the multinational corporation and America's second largest private jailer GEO Group to build an immigrant detention facility in the deindustrialized Rust Belt city, a city already ravaged by neoliberal economics and corporate globalization.
The facility, according to GEO Group and Freeman-Wilson, will house 800 prisoners, possibly employ 2o0 workers, cost $65 million to build and add $1 million to the city's annual property tax revenue. But the mayor is quite happy, as the proposed project would provide jobs in the $13-$15 an hour range. How much does the soul of a city cost? According to Freeman-Wilson, $1 million in tax revenue and a couple hundred jobs.
However, there's no way to understand Gary's current predicament without taking a brief stroll down memory lane. Gary, a city that's 85% African American and once an industrial goliath, is now a shell of its former self. When the steel mills closed their doors and shipped their services abroad, as corporations did in so many Midwestern cities and towns, tax revenue …show more content…
"Investigations into members of the Florida Republican Party, as well into party donors, have resulted in multiple indictments. And, on November 2, 2010 -- election day -- federal investigators subpoenaed the party's financial records," notes Beau Hodai of PR Watch. Interestingly, "Perhaps the most notable individual charged to date is former Rep. Ray Sansom (R-Destin), who, while serving as Rubio's budget chief, inserted language into the state's 2008-2009 budget for what was to become Blackwater CF [another subsidiary of GEO Group]." In a three year period stretching from 2006 - 2009, GEO Group gave over $85,000 to the Republican Party of
The facility, according to GEO Group and Freeman-Wilson, will house 800 prisoners, possibly employ 2o0 workers, cost $65 million to build and add $1 million to the city's annual property tax revenue. But the mayor is quite happy, as the proposed project would provide jobs in the $13-$15 an hour range. How much does the soul of a city cost? According to Freeman-Wilson, $1 million in tax revenue and a couple hundred jobs.
However, there's no way to understand Gary's current predicament without taking a brief stroll down memory lane. Gary, a city that's 85% African American and once an industrial goliath, is now a shell of its former self. When the steel mills closed their doors and shipped their services abroad, as corporations did in so many Midwestern cities and towns, tax revenue …show more content…
"Investigations into members of the Florida Republican Party, as well into party donors, have resulted in multiple indictments. And, on November 2, 2010 -- election day -- federal investigators subpoenaed the party's financial records," notes Beau Hodai of PR Watch. Interestingly, "Perhaps the most notable individual charged to date is former Rep. Ray Sansom (R-Destin), who, while serving as Rubio's budget chief, inserted language into the state's 2008-2009 budget for what was to become Blackwater CF [another subsidiary of GEO Group]." In a three year period stretching from 2006 - 2009, GEO Group gave over $85,000 to the Republican Party of