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CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) has scaled down their lobbying in past years; it peaked in '05 with $3.38m. Since '04, they've spent $2.3 million in ca
by warfangle 12y ago
CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) has scaled down their lobbying in past years; it peaked in '05 with $3.38m. Since '04, they've spent $2.3 million in campaign contributions and $21 million in lobbying [0].
The GEO group spends much less (but they are global, serving Australia, South Africa & the UK as well): $1.143 million in campaign contributions and $3.56 million in lobbying since '04 [1].
0. http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000021940 http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000021940
1. http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000022003&cycle=A http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000022003&cy...
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoWell, lobbying for private corrections is a different animal that lobbying for harsher sentencing. Without understanding where the dollars went, its hard to paint them with the evil brush.
- warfangle 12y agoThe point is, simply by having both 1) lobbying by for-profit corrections and 2) the ability to influence sentencing guidelines with lobbying money create a significant moral hazard. They don't even have to specifically lobby for tougher sentencing - they can just contribute to choice A of [A,B], where A is the candidate pushing for harsher sentences.