Private Prisons' Major Boon, The Rise Of Robots, Tiny Country's Big Bailout And More

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 Arizona Immigration Decision Could Mean Boon For Private Prison Business As the Supreme Court upheld a central provision of Arizona's controversial immigration law on Monday -– a requirement for law enforcement to check the legal status of suspected undocumented immigrants -- a powerful corporate lobby may stand to benefit: the private prison industry. For-profit prison companies including Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO Group Inc. have capitalized on the immigration crackdown over the past decade, now controlling nearly half of the nation's vast immigrant detention system. Both companies have more than doubled revenues from the business of detaining immigrants since 2005, collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Small Band Of Humans Fighting The Rise Of Robots On Wall St. Tiny Country, Big Bailout Fun Fact: Mitt Romney Was Also A Hedge Fund Manager Insider Trading Alert: Executive Edition City Going To Extreme Measures To Save Its Hockey Team BLOG POSTS Curtis Roosevelt: Austerity Policy Has Pushed Europe to the Brink The continual gatherings of heads of state, such as the one just concluded in Rome of Germany, France, Greece and Italy, reassure us that the euro will be saved. But the means to do so seem to be as elusive as ever. Gregg S. Lipman: The Reality of Cable TV The trend of jettisoning a brand's original DNA in favor of ratings is everywhere in cable right now -- and as a branding professional, I wonder how that will affect the overall branding of TV in the long haul. Tom Engelhardt: And You Thought It Would Be Easy? What you're up against is the power of the richest, most profitable corporations in history at a time when the sky's the limit, not just for carbon dioxide, but for the infusion of private and corporate money into what we once called democratic politics. Gar Alperovitz: How Big Banks Run the World -- at Your Expense Once you realize money must be and is regularly created and expanded, then the interesting questions begin to occur -- like "How is it done?" and "Who benefits from it?" Susan Blumenthal, M.D.: Weighing in on Sugary Beverages and Obesity Significantly reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is a key component in solving America's obesity crisis.

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