Flagged investments:
$185.12 BILLION, 23% of assets
Higher risk:
$11.99 BILLION, 1.49% of assets
Private prison operators:
$0, 0% of assets
For each prison industrial complex category, click to see the breakdown of flagged holdings.
Prison industry
Incarceration and detention facilities, services in facilities, supervision and monitoring
20
holdings
$124.26B
invested
15%
of portfolio
Border industry
Incarceration and detention facilities, immigrant monitoring and surveillance, militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border
31
holdings
$157.43B
invested
20%
of portfolio
Vanguard 500 Index Fund $VFINX has $185.12 BILLION invested in 37 companies involved in the prison industrial complex, amounting to 23% of fund assets
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