In December 2018, investor members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility launched a corporate campaign focused on a group of six companies across the private prison, e-commerce, banking and defense sectors, deemed at risk for human rights violations as a result of government contracts that support President Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policies. Investors have filed shareholder resolutions at the following companies:

Private Prisons

• CoreCivic (allegations of forced labor and failure to provide medical assistance to detainees)
• GEO Group (issues relating to safety, detainee rights, and medical care)
• We invited CoreCivic to respond; response provided
• We invited GEO Group to respond; it did not
• We previously invited CoreCivic and GEO Group to respond to allegations that they were profiting from the detention of immigrant and asylum-seeking families and the separation of families at the US-Mexico border. More information and responses from both companies are available here.

Technology

• Amazon (sale of facial recognition technology to government agencies including ICE and state law enforcement) 
• We invited Amazon to respond; response provided. More information about allegations related to its facial recognition technology is available here.

Financial Services

• SunTrust (funding for MVM, Inc. and Comprehensive Health Services, which are directly contracted with U.S. government agencies carrying out the “zero tolerance” immigration policy)
• Wells Fargo (providing revolving credit and term loans to GEO; letters of credit on CoreCivic’s behalf; and underwriting bonds for both GEO and CoreCivic) 
• We invited SunTrust to respond; it did not
• We invited Wells Fargo to respond; response provided (Update: In March 2019, Wells Fargo announced that it would end its relationship with GEO Group and CoreCivic.)
• We previously invited SunTrust and Wells Fargo to respond to allegations that bank and investor financing for CoreCivic & GEO Group supports these two companies to profit from the Trump Administration's harsh immigration policies. Wells Fargo responded, SunTrust declined to respond. More information is available here.
• We previously invited MVM, Inc. and Comprehensive Heath Services to respond to allegations of profiting from the detention of immigrant and asylum-seeking families. Both companies responses. More information is available here.

Defense Contractor

• Northrop Grumman (racial bias, privacy and surveillance via Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) database developed for the Department of Homeland Security)
• We invited Northrop Grumman to respond; response provided