Does divestment work? America’s private prisons suggest so

Published in the Financial Times

Divestment campaigns are pretty effective at creating media buzz. But most haven’t done what they aimed to do: starve their targets of capital. The latest news about the US private prison sector, however, might be a rather cheering exception that provides some evidence that divestment can work, at least in smaller industries.

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