Facility Surveillance and Security

This category includes publicly traded companies that provide U.S. prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers with tools and technologies used to control, track, and monitor the people they incarcerate. These companies include, for example:

  • Firearm manufacturers and makers of "less-lethal" weapons, riot control gear, and other weapons and related equipment.
  • Companies that provide prisons with CCTV and body-worn cameras, sensors, access control systems, and other surveillance equipment.
  • Companies that provide technologies for monitoring, recording, and/or analyzing phone calls and other prison communications.
  • Companies that provide prison management systems and software used to monitor incarcerated individuals' daily activities. Many of these systems use biometrics and facial recognition technology.
  • Companies that provide technologies for locating and extracting data from digital devices, such as phones and cars, used by incarcerated individuals or taken from people upon arrest.

People who are incarcerated have no privacy rights and are routinely subjected to invasive searches and other forms of surveillance and control, including strip and body cavity searches; cell raids; and mail, internet, telephone, and visitation monitoring. This makes prisons prime marketing targets for evermore invasive tracking, surveillance, and monitoring technologies manufactured by for-profit companies.

The list of companies involved in this sector
Select private companies are listed below publicly-traded companies.
(!) symbol means this company is on our divestment list
Publicly-Traded 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 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.

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.

An Israeli digital intelligence firm that supplies law enforcement agencies, prison authorities, border security agencies, and 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 manufacturer of firearms and ammunition for military, law enforcement, and commercial markets in Israel, the U.S., and around the world.

A Swedish data extraction firm that provides digital forensics tools to law enforcement and immigration authorities.

One of the world’s largest IT companies. Provides tools and infrastructure used by the US government to surveil immigrant communities and to manage prisons. Divested AnyVision for surveilling Palestinians but keeps providing services to the Israeli police.

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 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. 

Private Companies

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.

Pennsylvania

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 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.

This page was last updated on
2 August 2024