Is your congress member taking money from for-profit prisons?

Between 2021 and 2025, leading private prison companies donated about half a million dollars to Republican members of Congress currently in office and $57,000 to Democrats.

Private prison companies like GEO Group and CoreCivic are profiting off of Trump’s anti-immigrant, white supremacist agenda. What’s even more deplorable is that many members of Congress have accepted donations from these companies and their executives.

My colleague, Ethan Corey, and I compiled information on every sitting member of Congress who has received donations from two of the largest private prison companies that contract with ICE—CoreCivic and GEO Group—along with the smaller Management & Training Corporation (MTC).

We published the results of our investigation and a searchable database at In These Times and The Appeal—head over there to look up your congress members.

We’re planning to expand the database and would love to hear from you about what ICE profiteers we should include. Just reply to this email to share your thoughts!