New records obtained by KARE 11 show the company that owned a vacant private prison in Appleton, Minnesota offered to sell it to the state in 2025 for $75 million.
One year later, the Trump administration agreed to use taxpayer funds to buy the same abandoned prison from CoreCivic, Inc., for $495.6 million.
The price difference, $420 million, is more than taxpayers are estimated to have lost in Minnesota’s much-publicized Feeding Our Future fraud scandal.
Federal records show CoreCivic donated half a million dollars to the Trump-Vance inaugural committee.


We’re like 5 years away from “escape from LA” with snake plissken…
More like handmaids tale.
…except the movie was cool, reality is not. I’m so sorry for you guys. At least those poor sobs that have open eyes in this modern world.
Well given how things are we are probably closer to escape to LA. Writing that made every bone in my body ache, my Bedroom blood rejects giving LA compliments.