International Business Times: Stock Market Today: Private Prisons' Share Prices See Big Gains After Jeff Sessions Memo
As a major government contractor, GEO faced a complaint from the Campaign Legal Center, an activist group, in November for allegedly breaking a Federal Election Commission law that bars businesses awarded government contracts from donating to campaigns. When reached by International Business Times at the time, a GEO spokesperson pointed out that the contribution had been made by one of GEO’s 60 subsidiaries, which was not a government contractor.