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To: Bruce Van Saun | Chairman and CEO, Citizens Financial Group
Citizens Bank: Stop financing CoreCivic and The GEO Group.
To accommodate the planned increase in immigration detention capacity to at least 100,000 beds, notorious private prison giants CoreCivic and The GEO Group will have to undertake construction and renovation projects. These projects will require significant capital, but most of their lenders have already cut ties with the two companies.
Citizens Bank has instead deepened its financial ties to CoreCivic and The GEO Group, while continuing to tell its customers that it's "committed to strengthening our communities."
CoreCivic and The GEO Group have faced a mountain of allegations including forced labor, wrongful deaths due to understaffing and medical neglect, securities fraud, and more. Now they are helping the administration enact immigration policies that are hurting families and endangering our fundamental rights to due process and freedom of speech.
Citizens Bank cannot be on the side of communities and private prison companies. Citizens must pledge to cut ties with CoreCivic and The GEO Group.
Citizens Bank has instead deepened its financial ties to CoreCivic and The GEO Group, while continuing to tell its customers that it's "committed to strengthening our communities."
CoreCivic and The GEO Group have faced a mountain of allegations including forced labor, wrongful deaths due to understaffing and medical neglect, securities fraud, and more. Now they are helping the administration enact immigration policies that are hurting families and endangering our fundamental rights to due process and freedom of speech.
Citizens Bank cannot be on the side of communities and private prison companies. Citizens must pledge to cut ties with CoreCivic and The GEO Group.
Why is this important?
The mass detention, deportation, and surveillance of immigrant communities are a stain on our country's history. The GEO Group, CoreCivic, and the banks that finance them are all complicit.
*Photo by Molly Adams.
*Photo by Molly Adams.