This category includes companies that provide U.S. prison and/or immigration authorities with transportation services or vehicles for transferring, extraditing, and/or deporting incarcerated or detained individuals.
The transportation industry within the U.S. criminal punishment system includes companies that transport incarcerated people for transfers, court appearances, hospital visits, and more, ostensibly offering “mobile prisons” in which people are often chained together and subjected to days- or even weeks-long routes. Our research includes the main publicly traded companies that contract with U.S. prison authorities for such services, as well as those that design and sell vehicles specifically for “prisoner transportation.”
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including its two immigration enforcement agencies, Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, contract with the same type of companies as above for transporting immigrants to immigration jails and “shelters.” In addition, our research includes airlines and other companies used to carry out deportations.
For our 2018 report on transportation and deportation of incarcerated individuals and detained immigrants, see here.