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Late last week criminal justice-focused publication The Appeal ran a long story on neglect by Corizon, the prison healthcare giant owned by private equity and hedge fund firm BlueMountain Capital. The Appeal, Feb 8, 2019: “Corizon, the prison healthcare…
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…
On February 2, the Oregonian ran an op-ed by David Rogers, executive director of the ACLU of Oregon, on the state’s investments with Endeavour Capital, the private equity firm that owns Aladdin Bail Bonds. From the op-ed: “So what…
Private equity firm Endeavour Capital recently drew media attention after an affiliate, Triton Management Services LLC, contributed nearly $800,000 to an effort to overturn California’s recent landmark legislation to reform the state’s bail system. Triton, which is majority-owned by…
A new report “Private equity giants converge on manufactured homes” details how many of the largest private equity and real estate investors in the world, managing more than $1.77 trillion in assets, have converged on the manufactured housing sector,…
