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In buying up and combining two correctional service companies, Trinity and Keefe, HIG Capital’s TKC has an incentive to serve poor quality meals, which have been blamed in part for protests, contract terminations, and increased public health risks. Our new…
Our new report looks at the risks of private equity firm H.I.G. Capital’s investment in prison and detention center healthcare provider Wellpath. Key Points: Over the past several years, private equity firm HIG Capital has built up one of…
On February 5, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, along with the Corrections Accountability Project, Color of Change, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) sent letters to…
Earlier today, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released a report “Private Prisons and Investment Risks, Part Two: How Private Prison Companies Fuel Mass Incarceration—and How Public Pension Funds Are at Risk,” which looks at investment risk for pension…
(Fact sheet available here) A handful of private equity firms, drawing on capital from pension funds, foundations, endowments, insurance companies, and other institutional investors have invested heavily in companies providing services to prisons, jails, and detention facilities around the…
