US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centresBY RACHEL ALEMBAKIS | FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018 3:50PMA coalition of more than 80 US-based grassroots organisations are protesting US President Donald Trump's policy of immigrant detention through a campaign targeting banks JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo for providing debt financing for two for-profit prison companies - Core Civic and GEO Group - that operate immigrant detention centres housing people. |
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