Biometric immigrant tracking proposals could boost GEO, CoreCivic, or evaporate

A request for information published by the U.S. federal government has raised the profile of biometric surveillance of undocumented immigrants, but neither the monitoring nor the private-prison industries appear to think much will come of it soon.

In public statements, two major industry players are submitting information for the August request, and they both sound like they would compete hammer and tongs for it.

Yet one of the companies, CoreCivic, seems to have dedicated no real estate on its site …

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