[Peace-discuss] Rauner/Private Equity Follow-up

[Brian Dolinar]

GTCR also has a history of investing in mass incarceration. They bought out
the company CHC that provides medical and mental health at the Champaign
County jail. They also operate Judicial Correction Services, a leading
provider of privatized offender-funded probation.

BD

http://www.ucimc.org/content/how-privatization-destroyed-award-winning-suicide-prevention-program-champaign-county-jail

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2014/09/25/firm-tied-to-bruce-rauner-profits-from-court-sanctioned-extortion

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:38 AM, <grstorm24 at gmail.com> wrote:

> David: Elaborate a bit about the conflict(s) of interest you see involving
> the Governor and the Center? What is corrupting and how?
> Gary Storm
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 1, 2015, at 9:21 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.goldercenter.illinois.edu/
>
> Rauner's private equity firm is GTCR. The R stands for Rauner, the G for
> Golder, who died a while back after endowing a center for research into
> private equity at UIUC business school. As Appelbaum/Batt point out in
> their book "Private Equity at Work," business school research supporting
> private equity is rife with conflict of interest. Case in point. This is
> corruption on a grand scale right under our noses. I know it's a tired
> phrase, but you really can't make this stuff up. You couldn't have even
> made it up before Rauner became governor.
>
> DG
>
>


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Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
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