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Maxed-Out GOP Donor GEO Group Demands Tax Break from Poorest County in Michigan
Sunday , 6, October 2024 GEO Group, Punk Prison Leave a commentLast month, GEO Group contested a property tax assessment with the Michigan Tax Tribunal, demanding that the value of their sole Michigan prison be significantly reduced. The assessed property is the shuttered North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, Michigan. The facility was built 26 years ago with the approval of the Lake County Board of […]
Mason County’s CSPOA Member Kim Cole Will Attend the State Of the Union Address
Monday , 6, February 2023 COVID_19, Election 2020, MAGA, Punk Prison, Sad!, Trumpenreich 1 CommentThe world will watch as President Biden gives his State of the Union Address tonight. This requirement is stated in Article II of the United States Constitution. It is customary for members of Congress to invite a guest to sit in the mezzanine gallery and watch the event. Tonight, John Moolenaar (R – Wants to […]
Over 50 Organizations Say No in Reopening Michigan For-Profit GEO Group Prison as an ICE Detention Center
Monday , 26, September 2022 COVID_19, GEO Group, Punk Prison 1 CommentIn four days, GEO Group’s North Lake Correctional Facility once again will close. The for-profit prison in search of a prison population lost its contract through President Biden’s January 2021 executive order to not use private prisons for federal detainees. US Congressmen John Moolenar and Bill Huizenga, in June of 2022, proposed to convert the […]
Public Service Announcement From a Former(?) Employee of North Lake Correctional Facility
Tuesday , 18, May 2021 COVID_19, GEO Group, Punk Prison 2 CommentsNorth Lake Correctional Facility has been a double-edged sword in Northern Michigan’s side for over two decades. GEO Group can’t keep the for-profit prison open without government contracts, and the local community can’t stay fiscally afloat without the revenue the white elephant produces for them. In 2019 GEO Group announced the millions of dollars donated […]
Now ICE Leases TWO Prisons in Michigan
Thursday , 20, February 2020 GEO Group, Punk Prison, Trumpenreich Leave a commentOn February 12, 2020 the Lake County Board of Commissioners approved with unanimous vote to accept a contract from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The contract will allow ICE to move prisoners from North Lake Correctional Facility, owned by GEO Group, to the shuttered Lake County jail annex located in Baldwin. The annex up until […]
@CoreCivic and @WeAreGeo Tug of War: North Lake Correctional Facility Has a Future (Again)
Friday , 3, May 2019 GEO Group, Punk Prison 4 CommentsIn the world of for-profit incarceration, one company’s loss is another company’s gain. GEO Group announced on May 2, 2019, their successful contract bid with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to house 5,000 prisoners for the next ten years. CoreCivic, formerly CCA, issued a statement the day before the Federal Bureau of Prisons ended a […]