"Despite earning tens of billions of dollars each year, the public knows little about the prison industry and those that profit from it."An advocacy group"dedicated to dismantling the prison industry" on Wednesday unveiled an interactive database of over 4,000 corporations it says are profiting from the U.S. carceral system, the world's most populous.
"We are releasing the Prison Industry Corporate Database to help people understand the vastness of the prison industry and the financial incentives it has to expand incarceration rather than protect public safety, so that together we can build the solutions needed to dismantle it," Tylek added. Twenty companies on the list have a harm score of 15, including Bushmaster Firearms, Cerberus, CoreCivic, GEO Group, Remington Outdoor, Sodexo, and Sturm, Ruger & Co.