Prisons
A US-based multinational conglomerate that supplies raw materials to prison labor programs. 3M used to provide prison health care services, operate electronic monitoring systems, and manufacture components for weapons systems.
A US-based provider of behavioral healthcare services. It provides health services to people in prison and previously operated “shelters” for detaining unaccompanied immigrant children.
A US air cargo transportation and aircraft leasing company that operates deportation flights for the US government.
Google’s parent company. It provides cloud computing services and other technologies to the Israeli and US militaries, US immigration authorities, and electronic monitoring companies.
The world’s largest online retailer and cloud storage provider. It is the main provider of cloud infrastructure and services for the Israeli government and military, US immigration authorities, and US prisons and police.
A US-based provider of food, facility management, and uniform services. It provides food and other services to prisons and immigration jails and uses prison labor.
A US multinational company that manufactures food for humans, pets, and livestock. It purchases raw goods from prison farms.
A US manufacturer of less-lethal weapons and surveillance technology, which are used by the Israeli military and police against Palestinian civilians and by police, prison, immigration, and military agencies in the US and worldwide.
A US-based holding company and investment firm. Its subsidiary Shaw Industries uses prison labor. Other subsidiaries provide equipment, utilities, and uniforms to prison and jail authorities.
The owner of Safariland and Defense Technology, which manufacture tear gas and other crowd control weapons that are used by Israeli police and military authorities against Palestinians and by immigration, prison, and law enforcement agencies in the US and around the world.
A French IT and engineering firm that provides US immigration authorities with IT solutions used to support deportations.
A US-based medical supply company that provides pharmaceuticals to prisons, including drugs used in executions. Its former subsidiary Tradex provided materials for use in prison labor programs.
An Israeli digital intelligence firm that supplies police, prison, and immigration authorities, as well as repressive regimes around the world, with hacking technologies.
A US-based producer of surveillance tools that provides video management systems for monitoring prisons, jails, and the U.S.–Mexico border.
A Swiss chocolate and confectionery company. Its American subsidiary Russell Stover uses prison labor.
A US-based retail and commercial banking company. It has been one of the main financial backers of private prison company CoreCivic.
A manufacturer of firearms and ammunition for military, law enforcement, and commercial markets in Israel, the U.S., and around the world.
The world’s largest private prison company. It owns and operates prisons and jails, including immigration jails and “community corrections” centers, and uses forced prison labor. It also provides e-carceration technologies, transportation, and other services as part of the criminal punishment system.
One of the largest retailers in the US. It banned the use of all forms of prison labor in its supply chain in 2018 but continues to sell products made using such labor.
A US-based health insurance company, formerly named Anthem, that provides health services to youth jails and criminal legal programs.
A Canadian financial holding company. Its subsidiary Crum & Forster is the largest bail insurance company in the US.
A US-based banking and financial services company. It has been one of the main financial backers of private prison company CoreCivic.
A US-based vehicle manufacturer that provides commercial and specialized vehicles to Israeli occupation authorities and US police and immigration agencies.
A US automaker whose engines power vehicles used by the Israeli military and whose trucks have been used by Israeli military and police forces to surveil Palestinians and for other occupation-related purposes. It supplies vehicles to US police, prison, and immigration authorities.
The world's largest fast-food chain. It uses incarcerated labor at its restaurants and has prison labor in its supply chain.
A Swedish data extraction firm that provides digital forensics tools to law enforcement and immigration authorities.
One of the world's largest companies. Its technologies are used by the Israeli military and police and by US government agencies to surveil immigrant communities and manage prisons.
A British facility management, consultancy, and product management company that operates private prisons and immigration jails in the UK.
A US-based healthcare company, formerly named the Providence Service Corporation, that provides medical transportation services to prisons.
A US-based communications and surveillance company. Its surveillance products are used in US prisons, along the US–Mexico border, and by US police departments. Its equipment is installed in illegal Israeli settlements and along the separation wall in the occupied West Bank and is used by the Israeli military, police, and prison service.
An Israeli surveillance technology company that sells voice recording, video, and other surveillance tools to US police departments and prisons.
A Japanese financial services holding company. It has provided financing to private prison and immigrant detention company CoreCivic through two of its subsidiaries, Nomura Corporate Funding Americas and Nomura Securities International.
A US-based banking company. It has been a major financier of private prison company CoreCivic.
A UK-based data broker and information services provider. Its subsidiary LexisNexis provides US immigration authorities with systems used to track and target immigrant communities and sells legal databases to prisons and jails.
One of the world's largest fast-food restaurant companies. It uses prison labor at its restaurants and has prison labor in its supply chain.
A British multinational outsourcing company that operates prisons and immigration jails in Australia, Germany, New Zealand, and the UK.
A French multinational food services and facilities management company that operates prisons in Australia and the UK.
A US-based manufacturer of firearms and tactical gear. It sells its products to law enforcement agencies, the US military, and foreign militaries, including the Israeli military, which uses Ruger weapons to target Palestinians.
An Israeli provider of electronic monitoring, cybersecurity, and digital identity products. Its subsidiary Leaders in Community Alternatives sells e-carceration tools and and operates "community corrections" programs in the US and internationally.
A US-based banking and financial services company. It has been a major financier of private prison company CoreCivic.
A US retail company that sells household items, apparel, home furnishings, food, and other merchandise. It sells products that are produced using prison labor.
A US-based facility management services company that owns and partially operates two ICE immigration jails.
The world’s second-largest private prison company. It owns and operates prisons and jails, including immigration jails and “community corrections” centers, and uses forced prison labor. It also provides e-carceration technologies, transportation, and other services as part of the criminal punishment system.
A US retail company that operates supermarkets across the country. It sells products that are produced using prison labor.
A US holding company that owns Wendy's, one of the world's largest fast-food chains. It uses incarcerated labor.
A US-based multinational financial services company that facilitates money transfers to people held in prisons and jails, including immigration jails, across the US.
A Canadian data broker and information services provider whose systems and databases are used by US immigration authorities to target and track immigrants.
A US-based electronic monitoring company that provides prisons and law enforcement agencies with tracking and surveillance technologies.
One of the largest food manufacturing companies in the world. It uses incarcerated labor at its factories and has prison labor in its supply chain.
A US-based manufacturer and supplier of furniture and equipment for K-12 schools. It uses prison labor and sells its products to prisons.
The largest retailer in the world. It sells products that are made using prison labor.
One of the world's largest fast-food restaurant companies. It's subsidiary KFC uses prison labor.
AARDVARK Tactical sells military-grade tactical equipment, including armor, TASERs, crowd control weapons, acoustic hailing devices, robots, personal protective products, personnel/vehicle search equipment, and vehicle stopping systems, to law enforcement, prison, and immigration agencies.
Adamson Police Products sells military-grade tactical equipment, including firearms, ammunition, less-lethal munitions, body armor, robots, and thermal imaging tools, to US police departments and prison agencies.
A California-based bail bond insurance company—comprised of Allegheny Casualty, Associated Bond, and International Fidelity—that underwrites jail and immigration bonds. It operates across all 50 US states and Puerto Rico.
A Liechtenstein-based holding company that owns agricultural businesses. Its subsidiary Louis Dreyfus Company—a producer of food and beverages, pet food, pharmaceuticals, and other products—purchases raw goods from prison farms.
An Indiana-based property and casualty insurance company that specializes in underwriting immigration and jail bonds. It operates in 46 US states.
A private prison company, owned by CoreCivic. Owns and manages private halfway houses in Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming.
A Florida-based financial holding company whose bail bond surety subsidiary Bankers Surety provides surety services for immigration and jail bonds. It operates in over 40 US states.
A Wisconsin-based cheese manufacturer. It purchases surplus raw milk from a Wisconsin prison farm.
A global agribusiness and food company. Its North American subsidiary purchases raw goods from prison farms.
A Louisiana-based agricultural company that primarily operates grain and soybean processing facilities. The company's subsidiary Consolidated Grain and Barge Co. has purchased millions of dollars' worth of raw goods from prison labor programs.
A Louisiana-based prison communications company that provides phones, video "visitation" technology, messaging systems, and other products to US prisons, jails, and police agencies. As of 2021, the company served US prisons and jails responsible for incarcerating over 24,000 people.
A Kentucky-based prison communications company that provides phones, texting and video "visitation" services, tablets, kiosks, vending machines, and other products to 320 prisons and jails in the US. It is the fifth-largest prison telecom company in the US as of 2021.
Combined Systems Inc provides less-lethal weapons, including tear gas, and other equipment under its Combined Tactical Systems (CTS) brand to military forces and law enforcement agencies around the world.
A Texas-based prison communications company that provides phone and video "visitation" technology, tablets, and texting devices to US prisons and jails.
A Lousiana-based prison communications company that provides phones, video "visitation" services, kiosks, tablets, commissary ordering systems, and other products to US prisons and jails responsible for incarcerating over 31,000 people as of 2021.
A Nevada-based communications company that provides calling services, software, and other products to US prisons and jails.
A Nevada-based prison communications company that provides telecommunications equipment, video "visitation" systems, email services, and other products to jails across the US.
A subsidiary of Allied Universal, the world's largest private security company. It runs private prisons in Australia and the UK and deports immigrants in the US. It divested from all of its activities with the Israeli government following a global campaign.
A Canadian private security firm that operates across 45 countries. In addition to providing security guards to government, commercial, and nonprofit clients, it sells security and surveillance equipment and offers armored car, police support, facility management, and other security-related services.
A Missouri-based prison communications company that provides phone and messaging services, video "visitation" technology, kiosks, tablets, and other products to 159 prisons and jails across 31 US states.
Owned by prison services conglomerate TKC Holdings, ICSolutions is the third-largest prison communications provider in the US, controlling approximately 9% of the market as of 2021. The company provides over 230 prisons and jails nationwide with telephone, voicemail, email, and video "visitation" services; cell phone detection and control systems; and other products.
An Illinois-based poultry processor that sells products under the Koch Foods and Oven Cravers brands. It uses prison labor at its plants, where at least one incarcerated worker has been killed by machinery. In 2023, incarcerated individuals in Alabama sued Koch Foods and other companies for participating in an alleged forced prison labor scheme.
LC Action Police Supply sells tactical weapons and equipment, including firearms, pepper spray, impact and chemical munitions, flashbangs, sting ball grenades, restraints, batons, and uniforms, to US police, prison, and military agencies.
A Kentucky-based property and casualty insurance company that specializes in underwriting jail and immigration bail bonds. It operates across all 50 US states.
Lexipol is a privately-owned company that sells policy manuals, online training courses, officer "wellness resources," and other products to police departments throughout the US.
A Texas-based prison communications company that provides messaging, video "visitation," voice biometric, call data mining, and other products to prisons, jails, and police departments across 42 US states, the Bahamas, Japan, and South Korea. It is the fourth-largest prison telecom company in the US as of 2021.
A North Carolina–based prison communications company that provides phones, video "visitation" and messaging services, tablets, and other products to prisons and jails—responsible for incarcerating just over 20,000 people as of 2021—across the southeastern US.
A New Jersey–based prison communications company that provides phone and video "visitation" technology, tablets, messaging and commissary systems, and other products to US prisons and jails.
A North Dakota–based prison communications company that provides phone and texting services, video "visitation" technology, and other products to over 160 prisons and jails across Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
The largest prison communications company in the US, controlling approximately 42% of the market as of 2021. Along with its subsidiary JPay, it provides phone, video "visitation," e-messaging, and other communication systems to over 3,400 US prisons and jails. It also serves as a customer-facing partner for prison telecom competitors that provide only backend telecom infrastructure.
A Florida-based prison communications company that provides phones, tablets, kiosks, video "visitation" services, mail scanning technology, and other products to approximately 150 prisons and jails in more than 25 states nationwide.
A Wisconsin-based communications company that provides messaging and video "visitation" technology, commissary kiosks, and other products to US jails.
United Tactical Systems sells PepperBall projectiles, launchers, and related accessories to police, prison, and immigration authorities around the world.
Formerly Global Tel*Link (GTL), ViaPath Technologies is the second-largest prison communications company in the US, controlling approximately 37% of the market as of 2021. It provides phone and video "visitation" services, tablets, kiosks, and other products to nearly 2,000 prisons and jails across all 50 US states and serves as a customer-facing partner for prison telecom competitors that provide only backend telecom infrastructure. It also operates in the "community corrections" industry and, in 2022, launched an expanded "reentry services" program that includes vocational training, career planning, substance use and mental health treatment, and other so-called treatment-oriented programs.