Hackers aligned with the Anonymous group of online activists defaced today the Web site of a major contractor operating detention facilities, calling the move a protest of the for-profit prison system, which, they said, benefits from stricter laws and more arrests.
The home page for the Geo Group's Web site was inaccessible this afternoon after it had had been replaced with an image of imprisoned activist Mumia Abu-Jamal and audio of a song about him, according to news site RT.com.
Phone messages left by CNET at the Geo Group headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., were not returned late today. But company spokesman Pablo Paez said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that no information on staff or operations had been accessed. "Our public Web site is hosted by an external offsite third-party vendor--therefore no such information was compromised," he said.
Hackers operating under the "AntiSec" banner claimed responsibility and released a statement that alleges that owners of private prisons lobby for expansion of criminal laws, even as they operate at near capacity.
Those claims seem to be corroborated in a recent report from the nonprofit Justice Policy Institute, whose statistics find there are nearly 2.4 million people behind bars in the United States, giving it the highest incarceration rate in the world.
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