Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, February 3rd. Today on Forbes, the billion-dollar private

prison companies capitalizing on Trump's immigration crackdown. The prognosis for Dulce

Attawanman Caruancho was grim. Doctors at the Oshner-Lafayette General Hospital in Louisiana had told the 21-year-old's

family she might not survive her brain bleed. Though the cause of the injury and the bruises across her body was not clear,

her lawyers believe it was the result of trauma she'd suffered inside the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center, or SLIPC, a female-only

detainment facility for immigrants run by the $5 billion-dollar valued private prison company, Geo Group.

A Peruvian national, Carwancho had been moved to SLIPC after being detained in Arizona,

where she had told customs officials she was seeking

political asylum. She spent a month there before being rushed to Oshner-Lafayette, where,

according to a suit brought against Gio, she arrived with, quote, evidence consistent with repeated

sexual abuse and trauma, including significant bruising in and around her buttocks.

Coro survived, but with brain damage.

Released from ICE custody after she was discharged from the hospital in late 2023,

her family lawyers told Forbes she still struggles to walk unaided, often requires help using

the bathroom, and only began

feeding herself again last July. To this day, she has no recollection of what happened to her

inside SLIPC. And Gio Group has done little to explain. The Carawanchos are suing Gio,

alleging multiple failures to protect Dulce and an effort

to conceal its negligence.

They claim the company has not shared how she sustained her injuries and has provided

almost no information on her confinement at SLIPC.

Responding to an October subpoena for investigative reports, movement logs, and surveillance

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