For-Profit Prison Gets Name on Football Stadium

"For more than two years, Florida Atlantic University has been searching for the name of a corporate sponsor to adorn its new 30,000-seat, palm-ringed football stadium. The public university on Tuesday announced an unconventional partner: the nation's second-largest operator of for-profit prisons, the GEO Group Inc. The newly christened GEO Group Stadium came as part of a $6 million donation from the prison company's charitable foundation, which will be paid out to Florida Atlantic over 12 years."* For-profit, private prison company GEO Group is financing a university football stadium, and will be the stadium's namesake. Is the for-profit prison- which profits off taxpayer money- trying to make a better, more legitimized name for itself? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss. *Read more from Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/19/florida-atlantic-football-stadium_n_2720223.html?1361323728 Support The Young Turks by Subscribing http://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks Like Us on Facebook: Follow Us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/theyoungturks Buy TYT Merch: http://theyoungturks.spreadshirt.com/