{"id":27415,"date":"2025-01-22T17:41:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/?p=27415"},"modified":"2025-01-22T17:41:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:41:47","slug":"private-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/private-prisons\/private-prisons","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27417\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/private-prisons\/private-prisons\/attachment\/private-prisons\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/private-prisons.jpg?fit=878%2C1900&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"878,1900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"private prisons\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/private-prisons.jpg?fit=139%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/private-prisons.jpg?fit=473%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27417\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/private-prisons.jpg?resize=878%2C1900&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"878\" height=\"1900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/private-prisons.jpg?w=878&amp;ssl=1 878w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/private-prisons.jpg?resize=139%2C300&amp;ssl=1 139w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/private-prisons.jpg?resize=473%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 473w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/private-prisons.jpg?resize=768%2C1662&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/private-prisons.jpg?resize=710%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The stock price of GEO Group has nearly tripled since Trump\u2019s election.<br \/>\nWhy?<\/p>\n<p>GEO Group is a &#8220;private prisons&#8221; company.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Biden signed an executive order eliminating the very concept of private prisons. An order that has just been overturned by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>His Attorney General is Pam Bondi, who, before her appointment, openly lobbied for\u2026 GEO Group.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is very likely planning to fill these private prisons with those he cannot deport.<\/p>\n<p>When the deprivation of liberty becomes a source of wealth for the oligarchs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The stock price of GEO Group has nearly tripled since Trump\u2019s election. Why? GEO Group is a &#8220;private prisons&#8221; company. In 2021, Biden signed an executive order eliminating the very concept of private prisons. An order that has just been overturned by Trump. His Attorney General is Pam Bondi, who, before her appointment, openly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[648942784,648942730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-private-prisons","category-trump-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Price of Freedom - Michel Santi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/private-prisons\/private-prisons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Price of Freedom - Michel Santi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; The stock price of GEO Group has nearly tripled since Trump\u2019s election. 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