Stacia A. Hylton

U.S. Marshals Nominee: Work For Private Prison Corp Was Ethical

Ryan J. Reilly | November 18, 2010, 9:15AM

Stacia A. Hylton

Stacia A. Hylton, the Obama administration's nominee to head the U.S. Marshals -- who came under fire from human rights groups and criminal justice organizations for her ties to the private prison industry -- told the Senate Judiciary Committee that she followed all ethics requirements before beginning her consulting work.

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U.S. Marshals Service

Critics: U.S. Marshals Nominee Too Cozy With Private Prison Interests

Ryan J. Reilly | November 12, 2010, 1:29PM

Employees of the for-profit prison company GEO Group.

Human rights groups and criminal justice organizations are criticizing President Barack Obama's nomination of Stacia A. Hylton for director of the U.S. Marshals Service because of her ties to the for-profit prison industry.

Hylton was a 29-year career employee of the Justice Department until she left her post earlier this year and accepted $112,500 in consulting fees from the GEO Group, a for-profit prison industry group. Hylton awarded contracts worth up to $88 million to the GEO Group during her nearly six years as DOJ's Federal Detention Trustee, according to a press release. The GEO Group is the second largest operator of for-profit prisons in the United States.

"Sounds like the fox watching the henhouse to me," Ken Kopczynski, the director of the nonprofit watchdog group Private Corrections Working Group, told TPMmuckraker.

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