Dozens rallied outside the Seattle headquarters of the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday to protest their investment in GEO
Group—a notorious private prison company profiting from high levels of deportation and detention of suspected undocumented people under President Obama.
Immigrant justice campaigners, prison divestment advocates, and Gates Foundation grantees delivered 10,000 petition signatures demanding "immediately withdraw its investment in the GEO Group."
“GEO Group makes billions of dollars putting people in cages — and
they drive profits by lobbying to put more people behind bars for minor
crimes," said Arturo
Carmona, Executive Director of Presente.org. "With Latinos now the
largest group in federal prisons and detention centers—mostly for minor
or non-existent crimes—the Gates’ investment is particularly galling for
us. Unless they divest, the Gates Foundation will drag their legacy
into the mud of wasteful, overcrowded and abusive immigrant prisons.”
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