Private Prisons
Conduct Screen Criminal Justice
Companies that own or operate for-profit prisons, immigration detention centers, or juvenile detention facilities, or that derive significant revenue from prison labor or correctional services — includes private prison operators (CoreCivic, GEO Group), prison telecom providers, commissary operators, and electronic monitoring companies. Distinct from surveillance_tech (which covers surveillance products regardless of customer) and military_contracting (which covers defense sales).
26 companies currently excluded under this screen
Excluded Companies (26 total)
Showing 25 of 26 companies excluded under this screen.
| Ticker | Company | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| MSFT | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft's involvement in the carceral system spans immigration enforcement technology and correctional facility software. As of October 2025, Microsoft held $30.8 million in ongoing contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with the amount of data ICE stores on Microsoft's Azure cloud tripling from 400 terabytes to 1,400 terabytes between July 2025 and January 2026 following a $75 billion congressional budget increase for the agency. More than 100 Microsoft employees have publicly protested the company's ICE work, which has included a $19.4 million contract for data processing and artificial intelligence capabilities used in enforcement operations. Microsoft also built the foundational software for U.S. prison management systems. The Offender 360 platform, developed in 2009 on Microsoft Dynamics CRM as part of a $30 million contract to overhaul the Illinois Department of Corrections computer systems, tracks prisoner locations, identifying features, criminal history, and behavioral categorizations. The platform expanded into Youth 360 for juvenile detention and Pretrial 360 for bond risk assessments. While Offender 360 was later sold to DXC Technology and then acquired by Harris in 2022, the product remains built on Microsoft Dynamics CRM infrastructure. Microsoft Azure Government maintains CJIS compliance certifications specifically marketed for criminal justice and law enforcement agencies, and the Department of Justice awarded Microsoft a contract worth up to $75 million in 2020 for software and support services. |
| GOOGL | Alphabet Inc. | Alphabet maintains multiple contracts with U.S. Customs and Border Protection totaling over $24 million, including a $19.5 million three-year contract through Westwind awarded in June 2024, a $3.6 million contract through ThunderCat running from June 2023 to 2026, and a $1.3 million contract through Four Points dating to 2020. AFSC Investigate documents that in 2020, CBP accepted a proposal to integrate Google Cloud AI into its INVNT surveillance system, which feeds data to Anduril-built surveillance towers deployed along the U.S.-Mexico border. Google approved 83 percent of approximately 40,000 law enforcement data requests in a six-month period in 2020, sharing user data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement via administrative subpoenas that require no judicial oversight. Google's products are also embedded in the physical infrastructure of immigration detention. Google Maps is integrated into BI Incorporated's ankle monitoring shackles, which track more than 150,000 individuals under ICE supervision, as well as into the Attenti and VeriTracks electronic monitoring systems. These integrations mean Alphabet's location services directly enable the surveillance and movement restriction of people held in immigration detention or released under electronic monitoring conditions, generating revenue from the daily operation of the detention and deportation apparatus. |
| CXW | CoreCivic Inc | CoreCivic, Inc. is one of the largest private prison and detention contractors in the United States. Its primary business is owning and operating for-profit correctional and detention facilities under contract with government agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The company's CoreCivic Safety division manages over 50 facilities, while its CoreCivic Community division oversees residential reentry centers. A significant portion of its operations involves immigrant detention, such as at its California City Immigration Processing Center under contract with ICE. The company has faced significant legal and regulatory challenges related to its operations. In 2021, CoreCivic paid $56 million to settle a class-action securities lawsuit. Separate lawsuits, including one filed in 2022 by the parents of three deceased inmates, allege systemic failures in inmate safety and guard conduct. CoreCivic has also actively opposed legislation aimed at restricting its business model, successfully challenging New Jersey's ban on for-profit immigration detention in court in 2025. The company engages in political lobbying, including efforts highlighted in 2026 to secure financing from banks and advocating for policies that maintain demand for detention beds. |
| AMZN | Amazon.com, Inc. | Amazon Web Services provides the foundational cloud infrastructure for the U.S. immigration detention and enforcement apparatus. AWS hosts Palantir's Investigative Case Management system, the central database that ICE agents use to track, identify, and deport immigrants. ICM integrates immigration history, family relationships, personal connections, addresses, phone records, and biometric traits into a single surveillance platform. In 2025, ICE awarded Palantir a $30 million contract to build ImmigrationOS, a successor system designed to streamline apprehension of removal targets and provide "near real-time visibility" into deportation logistics — infrastructure that runs on AWS. Amazon actively marketed its Rekognition facial recognition system to ICE. Internal documents obtained through FOIA by the Project on Government Oversight show that Amazon officials met with ICE at a McKinsey-sponsored technology boot camp in June 2018 and followed up directly to pitch Rekognition for immigration enforcement. An ACLU-commissioned test demonstrated that Rekognition falsely matched 28 members of Congress with mugshot photos, with members of color misidentified at disproportionately higher rates. |
| CLBT | Cellebrite DI Ltd | Cellebrite DI Ltd. develops and sells digital forensic tools, including its Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED), which are used by law enforcement and correctional agencies worldwide. These tools are deployed within carceral systems for evidence collection and inmate monitoring. The company's technology is integrated into prison and detention center operations, supporting the infrastructure of for-profit incarceration. AFSC Investigate documents that Cellebrite's tools have been used in criminal prosecutions against activists. Amnesty International reports indicate the company's UFED tools have been used by police to unlock phones during arrests, with specific documented misuse against environmental activists and protesters in Serbia. While Cellebrite markets its solutions for detecting fraud and abuse within agencies, its core products serve correctional and law enforcement customers, deriving revenue from the carceral system. |
| MSI | Motorola Solutions, Inc. | Motorola Solutions provides communications equipment, surveillance systems, and software specifically marketed for use in correctional facilities. The company's website features a dedicated section for "Correctional Facilities," promoting its technology for inmate and officer safety. Public procurement records show contracts with entities like the Oconee County Detention Center for console furniture and with the New York City Department of Correction. The American Friends Service Committee's Investigate database lists Motorola Solutions as a company whose surveillance products are used in U.S. prisons. While the company's communications technology has broad public safety applications, its targeted development and marketing of integrated security systems for the private prison and detention center industry constitutes a material business relationship with that sector. |
| CFG | CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP INC | Citizens Financial Group, through its Citizens Bank subsidiary, has been identified as a main financial backer of the private prison company CoreCivic. CoreCivic operates for-profit prisons and immigration detention centers under government contracts. The bank's financial support, which includes lending and other services, directly enables the operations of a business model centered on incarceration and immigrant detention. Public campaigns, including those documented by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), have specifically targeted Citizens Bank for its continued financing of CoreCivic and GEO Group, another major private prison operator. This ongoing financial relationship persists despite heightened public scrutiny of the human rights allegations—including physical abuse and inadequate medical care—faced by facilities operated by these companies. |
| WU | WESTERN UNION CO | Western Union provides money transfer services to and from immigration detention centers operated by private prison companies. The company has been a service provider for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention system, facilitating financial transactions for individuals held in facilities run by companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group. This business activity directly supports the infrastructure of for-profit immigration detention. In 2021, Western Union was specifically cited by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) for its role in enabling transfers into the detention system. While the company's broader human rights record includes serious allegations related to its operations in Myanmar, its provision of services to the private prison industry constitutes a separate and direct link to the for-profit incarceration model. |
| REL | RELX PLC | RELX PLC, through its subsidiary LexisNexis, provides data brokerage and investigative services to U.S. immigration enforcement authorities. The AFSC Investigate database documents that LexisNexis systems are used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to track and locate individuals. This places the company within the infrastructure supporting immigration detention operations. While RELX is not a direct operator of detention facilities, its provision of specialized tools to a government agency engaged in large-scale detention and deportation constitutes material support to that system. The company derives revenue from contracts with these authorities, though the specific financial materiality of this revenue stream within RELX's broader information and analytics business is not publicly detailed in the gathered evidence. |
| TRI | THOMSON REUTERS CORP | Thomson Reuters Corp. provides data and information services that support the operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The American Friends Service Committee’s Investigate database flags the company as part of the “borders” industry, a categorization for companies that enable or profit from immigration enforcement and detention systems. Investment funds focused on social justice, such as the Praxis International Index Fund, have excluded Thomson Reuters based on its ties to this sector. The specific nature of the company’s contracts or services to private prison operators like CoreCivic and GEO Group is not detailed in public disclosures. However, its classification by multiple human rights and investment screening sources indicates a material business relationship with the immigration detention apparatus. |
| CALM | Cal-Maine Foods | Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. shell egg producer, directly employs incarcerated labor at its production facilities. In Kansas, incarcerated individuals are sent on day jobs to Cal-Maine factories as part of prison work programs. The AFSC Investigate database and an Associated Press investigation into prison labor in food supply chains document this practice. Cal-Maine's corporate human rights policy prohibits the use of forced labor but does not ban the use of prison labor, a distinction that allows the company to exploit below-market-rate incarcerated workers while technically complying with its own policy. The company's reliance on prison labor in its egg production operations raises concerns about labor exploitation given the coercive nature of incarceration and the minimal wages typically paid to incarcerated workers. |
| GEO | The GEO Group, Inc. | The GEO Group, Inc. has been identified by the United Nations Human Rights Council as a business enterprise involved in activities related to Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. According to the UNHRC database update (A/HRC/60/19, 2025), GEO's activities are considered to have negative human rights impacts on the rights of Palestinians. The company's inclusion on this list stems from its provision of security services and involvement in infrastructure supporting the occupation. A 2019 engagement report from AFSC Investigate specifically noted GEO's involvement in the construction of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine. Operating in or providing services to settlements, which are considered illegal under international law, constitutes material support to activities in occupied territories. |
| SPCB | SUPERCOM LTD | SuperCom Ltd. provides electronic monitoring ("EM") solutions that are used by governments to supervise individuals within correctional systems and as an alternative to incarceration. The company's core business is developing and supplying technology for the prison and law enforcement sector, positioning it as a supplier to the for-profit corrections industry. The company's expansion in the U.S. market is focused on capturing growth in the electronic monitoring segment, which is intrinsically linked to the prison and community corrections ecosystem. Analyst coverage categorizes SuperCom among the best prison and law enforcement stocks, indicating its financial reliance on this sector. AFSC Investigate identifies SuperCom as a provider of electronic monitoring services within the corrections industry. |
| MMM | 3M Company | 3M has been identified as a purchaser of goods produced through prison labor programs. According to a 2022 report from the advocacy group Worth Rises, state correctional industries sold goods and services to nearly a thousand private companies, including 3M Company. This supply chain relationship directly connects 3M’s operations to the carceral labor system. The company’s connection to the private prison industry is also evidenced in SEC filings from major private prison operator GEO Group, which lists 3M Company among its competitors for contracts with privately operated criminal detention facilities. Furthermore, 3M subsidiary Pro-Tech is named in the same competitive context, indicating a business segment engaged with correctional and detention services. |
| CDRE | Cadre Holdings Inc | Cadre Holdings Inc. manufactures and sells safety and security equipment, including body armor, restraints, and tactical gear, under brands like Safariland. The company's products are specifically marketed and sold to law enforcement and correctional agencies, positioning it as a supplier to the prison and detention industrial complex. While Cadre Holdings does not own or operate detention facilities, its business model is built on supplying equipment to the carceral system. AFSC Investigate lists the company as providing equipment, utilities, and uniforms to prison and jail authorities. This revenue stream is integral to its operations as a public safety equipment provider. |
| MODV | MODV | Modiv Inc. (MODV) is a real estate investment trust that derives revenue from leasing properties to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for use as immigration detention facilities. The company holds at least 53 contracts with ICE, spanning from 2008 to 2021, with a cumulative value exceeding $9 million. These contracts directly implicate Modiv in the for-profit detention infrastructure. The company's business model includes providing real estate to a government agency whose detention practices have been widely criticized by human rights organizations. This revenue stream constitutes a material link to the private prison and detention industry. |
| TH | Target Hospitality Corp. | Target Hospitality Corp. operates a significant portion of its business through government contracts to provide temporary lodging and support services for immigration detention facilities. The company’s largest and most prominent contract is for the “Village” at the southern U.S. border, a complex that houses U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel and contractors. While not a traditional prison operator, the company’s infrastructure directly supports the federal immigration detention system. AFSC Investigate documents Target Hospitality as part of the broader prison industry due to its role in providing essential services to detention operations. |
| TSN | Tyson Foods, Inc. | Tyson Foods has been identified as a financier of the private prison industry. According to the American Friends Service Committee's Investigate database, the company has been a major financier of the two largest private prison operators in the United States, CoreCivic and The GEO Group. This financial support constitutes a material link to the for-profit incarceration system. The available evidence does not specify the exact financial mechanism or amount, but the company's inclusion on this list indicates a recognized business relationship with the prison industrial complex. |
| QSR | Restaurant Brands International Inc. | Restaurant Brands International, the parent company of Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons, uses prison labor within its restaurant operations. According to a class-action lawsuit filed in December 2023, incarcerated individuals were employed at its Burger King and Popeyes locations. The American Friends Service Committee’s Investigate project lists the company among those using prison labor at its restaurants and within its supply chain. A 2024 investigation into forced prison labor noted its products feed into supply chains linked to this labor system. |
| EFGSY | EIffage SA | Eiffage SA, a major European construction and concessions group, holds a long-term contract for the design, build, finance, and maintenance (DBFM) of a detention center for 300 detainees in Belgium. This involvement in the financing and operation of carceral infrastructure constitutes direct participation in the for-profit corrections sector. The Domini Impact Equity Fund listed Eiffage SA in its 2021 semi-annual report among companies excluded for operating for-profit prisons or immigration detention centers. |
| TYL | TYLER TECHNOLOGIES INC | Worth Rises Prison Industry Database — Tyler Technologies; provides corrections management software (court case management, jail management, e-citation systems) to 3,000+ government agencies; Corrections suite manages booking, classification, and supervision of incarcerated people; material revenue from carceral infrastructure |
| TRCK | Unknown | Track Group (TRCK) designs and markets GPS offender tracking devices (ReliAlert, SHADOW) and monitoring software (IntelliTrack) for criminal justice agencies. Profits from electronic monitoring of people on probation/parole. Devices have patented surveillance capabilities including recording without warning. |
| CNDT | CONDUENT INC | Worth Rises Prison Industry Database — Conduent; provides government outsourcing including corrections case management and electronic monitoring program administration; manages ankle monitoring programs and reentry services under government contracts; material government corrections revenue |
| WEN | Wendy's Company (The) | Wendy’s has been criticized for its labor practices, including the use of prison labor in some of its locations. The company has faced allegations of exploitation and labor rights abuses in its tomato supply chain, with critics calling for it to join the Fair Food Program. |
| ARMK | Aramark | Aramark is a major provider of food services to US prisons and jails, profiting directly from mass incarceration. The company has faced lawsuits and investigations over substandard food quality and abuse in its correctional food service contracts. |
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