Will The Private Prison Business See A Trump Bump?

An unmarked police truck patrols the outside of a detention center run by CoreCivic in Eloy, Ariz., on Jan. 20, 2016.
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With President-elect Donald Trump’s tough talk on immigration, private prisons may be an early winner under his administration.
In the week after Election Day, stocks of GEO and CoreCivic, the two biggest for-profit detention companies, shot up more than 20 and 40 percent, respectively.
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