Who are The GEO Group & CoreCivic?
The GEO Group (GEO) and CoreCivic are the largest private prison companies in the country, and two of ICE's most important corporate partners. More than half of the tens of thousands of people currently in detention are being held in one of their facilities.
They have spent millions of dollars lobbying and donating to the politicians who determine detention policy and budgets. And several administration officials—including Tom Homan, Pam Bondi, and David Venturella—have worked directly for GEO in years past.
Both companies' histories are riddled with serious allegations
of severe human rights abuses and misconduct, along with
near-constant litigation.
How is Citizens Bank involved?
Citizens Financial Group has been a financier of the private prison and detention industry since at least 2012.
In 2019, in response to grassroots activists and shareholder pressure, eight of the country’s largest banks ended their relationships with the private prison industry. But Citizens Bank stayed the course.
Citizens doesn’t just provide loans. The bank also arranges and coordinates complex credit and bond deals, working alongside other banks. If the for-profit prison industry’s lenders were a football team, Citizens would be the quarterback.
Since 2024, Citizens has played key roles helping GEO and CoreCivic access more than $2.5 billion in financing, including
$100 million in January 2026.
THE WHOLE STORY
Want to see the receipts?
Our friends at Boycott Citizens have compiled a detailed timeline of Citizens Bank's history with ICE detention companies, complete with links to SEC filings documenting these relationships.
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Our Neighbors' Stories
“I want to get out and eat pizza and bananas. I really want to go to school. I miss my friends from school.”
Thousands of children have been put in ICE detention since 2025. Five have been held for more than nine months at a CoreCivic facility in Texas, where they describe medical neglect, inedible food, and trauma.
“Medical personnel merely took her to a small room, and left her bleeding alone...”
CoreCivic medical staff repeatedly delayed care for Lucia, who was bleeding heavily in the first trimester of her pregnancy. They finally sent her to a hospital with her arms and legs in shackles. But it was too late: she lost her child.
“That was their final goodbye — behind a window without being able to touch him or speak to him.”
Luis had always relied on medication to manage a congenital heart condition. His family says the GEO Group facility where he was held didn't supply it or provide the care he desperately needed. On Jan. 5, he died.
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“He has to remove his prosthetics and then he crawls across floors covered with mold and feces to shower.”
After a lifetime in the U.S., father, husband and double amputee Rodney Taylor faces declining health in CoreCivic's Stewart ICE facility in Georgia where he has been held for more than a year.
“I don't care that he was an inmate ... he was a human soul. He shouldn't have died.”
Bill Rogers worked for the CoreCivic in 2016 and is still haunted by an inmate's death that the company did not report for six days. The inmate was a sweet, funny kid who reminded Rogers of his own son. Calling an ambulance quickly could have saved him.
“It’s just one of the worst feelings. Here I am on deployment, on active duty, and they are abusing my mom.”
Reyna's son returned from his deployment to learn of her alleged abuse by a GEO Group employee. GEO monitors more than 180,000 people in U.S. communities, with few guardrails against abuse.
What are we asking Citizens to do?
Citizens Bank says it's committed to fostering strong communities. We're asking that they live up to that commitment.
ICE detention operators profit from the destruction of our communities—even the imprisonment of children—and by backing them, so does Citizens.
​So we're urging them to end their financial relationships with all private prison and ICE detention and transport companies
and publicly commit not to do business with them in the future.