Private Prison Company Pulls Out of Stadium Naming Deal
Controversial private prison company the GEO Group announced yesterday that it is pulling out of a deal to buy naming rights for the Florida Atlantic University football stadium.
GEO’s prisons, including immigration detention centers and juvenile correctional facilities, have been the sites of a long list of documented violations of prisoners’ rights, and students have been protesting the FAU stadium naming deal since it was announced in February, staging public demonstrations and referring to the new stadium as “Owlcatraz.” The university, however, had until yesterday given GEO and the deal vocal public support, insisting that it would go forward.
(Just to get it out of the way — was not an April Fool’s Day prank. The deal’s end was reported yesterday inmultiple local news outlets in stories sourced to GEO, and a press release confirming
GEO’s prisons, including immigration detention centers and juvenile correctional facilities, have been the sites of a long list of documented violations of prisoners’ rights, and students have been protesting the FAU stadium naming deal since it was announced in February, staging public demonstrations and referring to the new stadium as “Owlcatraz.” The university, however, had until yesterday given GEO and the deal vocal public support, insisting that it would go forward.
(Just to get it out of the way — was not an April Fool’s Day prank. The deal’s end was reported yesterday inmultiple local news outlets in stories sourced to GEO, and a press release confirming