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[[image:LockupQuotas ITPI major findings.png|thumb|Findings from In the Public Interest, Sept. 19, 2013<br>([http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/sites/default/files/Criminal%20Lockup%20Quota%20Report.pdf/ Criminal--How Lockup Quotas and “Low-Crime Taxes” Guarantee Profits Guarantee Profits])|right|500px]] GEO's business model rests on incarceration. The more individuals locked up, the more GEO and its shareholders profit. Increases in GEO's earnings and stock prices have corresponded with America's incarceration boom -- and laws that criminalize a longer list of conduct and require that those convicted serve longer sentences are good for business.
== Profiting From More People Behind Bars ==
According to the Justice Policy Institute: "Since private prison companies are in the business to make money, policies that maintain or increase incarceration boost their revenues; from a business perspective, the economic and social costs of mass incarceration are "externalities" that aren’t figured into their corporate bottom line."<ref name="JPI"/>
