Crawford Group

<p></p><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border-width: 1px 0px; border-top-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); border-bottom-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); font-weight: normal; font-size: 32px; line-height: 32px; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prison services are profitable niche for Bridgeton company</h1><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">little-known St. Louis-area company has turned prisons into a business opportunity — and it’s done so by providing services that critics say come at too stiff a price.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The 40-year-old Keefe Group is one of the larger players in a cottage industry that provides inmates with everything from food and condiments to music players and phone service. It handles deposits to prisoner accounts and runs an operation that allows family and friends an easy way to send approved — as in containing no contraband or potential weapons — care packages.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Companies such as Bridgeton-based Keefe, which won a contract last year with the Missouri Department of Corrections, offer prisons a way to be more than just rooms with cages. They offer inmates a few of the pleasures of the outside world and, more importantly, a way to stay in touch with society.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But critics see the companies as profiteers, making money off the family and friends of a captive clientele.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“They find so many ways to milk these people for every penny they can,” said <a title="http://umsl.edu/ccj/faculty/campbell.html" href="http://umsl.edu/ccj/faculty/campbell.html" target="blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(59, 89, 152);">Michael Campbell</a>, assistant professor of criminology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. “You are talking about people who are extremely poor.”</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Clearly, that’s an observation not shared by Keefe.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“You’ve got a very high cost of doing business,” said </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jim Theiss, chief executive of the Centric Group, Keefe’s parent holding company</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. “I can assure you we believe in providing a value.”</span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">CUP OF COFFEE</strong></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The company, now with $1 billion in annual revenue, got its start in 1963 as the Jack Keefe Coffee Bar, a small St. Louis firm that sold coffee to hotels around the country. It was purchased in 1974 by the Taylor family of Enterprise Rent-A-Car fame. That was just two years before a Florida prison sent the company down its current path when it started buying the same single-serve coffee packs Keefe sold to hotels.</span></p><div style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; width: 378px; float: right; margin-left: 2px;"><div id="ym_724545649249033469" class="ym" /></div><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Seeing an opportunity, the company expanded rapidly into the corrections market, developing a series of packaged drink mixes and other commissary offerings. It quickly proved adept at modifying popular foods for prison consumption.</span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Because of their potential as weapons, bottles and cans are nonstarters in prison. So the company pioneered the use of pouches for pretty much everything — macaroni and cheese, roast beef, chili and refried beans.</span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“StarKist in a pouch? We had it first,” Theiss said.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By 1982, the prison side of the business had become so strong that the company divided into two distinct units, one focused on prisons, the other on hotels. In the late 1990s, both units were spun off from their Enterprise parent to become</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> the Centric Group, which has 2,800 employees.</span></p><div class="p402_premium" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><div id="article_body" class="asset-body clearfix" style="zoom: 1; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(224, 224, 224);"><div id="article_main" class="asset-main" style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="entry-content"><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ompany is still owned by the Taylors. Enterprise Holdings Executive Chairman<a title="http://www.enterpriseholdings.com/siteAssets/Andy%20Taylor%20bio.pdf" href="http://www.enterpriseholdings.com/siteAssets/Andy%20Taylor%20bio.pdf" target="blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(59, 89, 152);">Andrew Taylor</a>, who once served as a Keefe vice president and treasurer, is one of the company’s directors, as was his father, Jack Taylor, in the 1990s.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Enterprise referred questions about Keefe and the Taylors to Theiss, who said the family has no involvement in day-to-day operations and that there is no affiliation with the rental car empire.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Still, it’s clear that ties remain.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For example, in its successful bid last year to provide email and deposit services to Missouri prisons, the company referred to itself both as an affiliate and a subsidiary of Enterprise.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Asked about it, Theiss said, “That’s a habit we need to stop doing.”</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And when it comes to public relations, Enterprise handles those duties for Keefe. The reason, a spokeswoman said, is that Keefe seldom has dealings with the public or the media and doesn’t have its own staff.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since Keefe and its parent Centric are private companies, it’s difficult to gain a clear picture of their finances. The veil was lifted somewhat last year, when the Missouri Department of Corrections insisted that Keefe include a variety of financial information as part of its bid.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Keefe has six subsidiaries and 17 distribution centers around the country, shipping more than 25 million pounds of goods and supplies each month. In 2012, its Keefe Commissary Network, along with two other subsidiaries, recorded a robust $41 million net income on $375 million in sales.</span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">‘A RELATIVE TERM’</strong></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The company has contracts with more than 800 public and private prisons, with the bulk of its business in commissaries</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In Missouri, for example, Keefe has contracts to provide everything from strawberry Twizzlers and precooked long grain rice to creamy peanut butter and vanilla iced oatmeal cookies.</span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In recent years, however, the company has increasingly looked for new opportunities, pushing into financial services, portable music players and, next up, tablets.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Under its new three-year contract with Missouri’s prisons, it handles deposits made to inmate accounts and runs an email system and related security.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That contract is expected to pay Keefe somewhere around $8.5 million a year, according to the Missouri Office of Administration’s evaluation of bids.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As is typical with these types of contracts, the prison system pays nothing for the services. Instead, costs are covered by fees charged to families and friends using the services.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Deposits are subject to a range of fees, depending on how the money is moved into an inmate’s account.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cash deposits made through the company’s network of retail partners cost $2.50. Depositing money by phone or computer costs anywhere from 95 cents to $5.75, with the largest fees attached to deposits of $50 or less. Money orders sent directly to the corrections department are still free.</span></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s that fee structure, one that can claim 20 percent or more of a deposit, that draws the ire of those who criticize the small group of private firms serving this niche market.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“That’s price gouging,” said Alex Friedmann, managing editor of <a title="https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/" href="https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/" target="blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(59, 89, 152);">Prison Legal News</a>, an advocate for prisoners’ rights. “I would submit that this kind of business is kind of like printing your own money.”</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Still, Keefe points out that it won the Missouri contract by offering rates considerably lower than those proposed by several competitors. Deposit industry leader JPay, for example, submitted a bid on which it was expected to make $17 million — double Keefe’s rates — from deposit fees each year, according to the Office of Administration’s evaluation.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“When they say these things are too expensive, that’s a relative term,” said Theiss, the Centric executive.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He also points to ongoing efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to slash the cost of prison phone calls as further proof of Keefe’s pricing sensitivity.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The commission has ordered caps — 25 cents per minute on collect calls and 21 cents a minute for debit card calls — for long-distance charges and is now looking at doing the same with in-state rates. The action, which has been challenged by the industry in federal court, follows years of complaints by inmate advocates over phone rates that can top $1 a minute.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Inmate calling rates are driven by three key factors: Per-minute charges, fees and commissions often paid to the jails and prisons, which consider them a source of revenue.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In filings with the FCC, Keefe’s phone division, Inmate Calling Solutions, has pushed for the use of rate caps and the elimination of fees to bring prices down.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We ran counter to the entire industry,” Theiss said.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The phone division has contracts to provide service to more than 200 facilities around the nation. Included in those is the St. Louis County jail, where it charges as much as 25 cents a minute for domestic collect, prepaid and debit card calls. The company also charges a $6.95 fee whenever funds are deposited into a prepaid account. But 73.1 percent of the money is paid to the county as a commission, according to its contract.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And while the company may oppose the various fees charged by its competitors, that hasn’t gained Keefe much in the way of goodwill from phone critics.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We would not consider them one of the good guys just because they advocated change,” said Friedmann, whose organization is pushing for 5 to 7 cents per-minute rates. “They might be the bully that punches you — just not as much.”</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">STAYING CONNECTED</strong></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The push for lower phone rates is driven largely by advocates’ belief that prisoners and the society at large will benefit by keeping these incarcerated men and women in touch with a world they will eventually rejoin. They make the same argument about access to email and other bits of technology.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The more isolated we make the prisoners, the more difficult it is for them to re-enter society,” said<a title="http://www.law.pace.edu/faculty/michael-b-mushlin" href="http://www.law.pace.edu/faculty/michael-b-mushlin" target="blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(59, 89, 152);">Michael Mushlin</a>, a professor at Pace University’s law school in New York. “It’s bewildering in ways that are hard for us to understand. They’re like historic relics.”</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That’s one of the reasons, Keefe said, why it offered free email in its bid for the Missouri contract. The service, as requested by the state, is one-way only. Emails sent to prisoners are printed by prison staffers and delivered to inmates.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All five of the other bidders were going to charge fees for emails, but Keefe said in its contract that it “understands the importance of easing the financial burden that this communication can have on both the inmate and the loved one.”</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But that’s not always the case with Keefe’s contracts. In Arkansas, for example, it costs as much as 38 cents to send an email. It’s as high as 31 cents in Oregon and 25 cents in Wyoming.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The reason for Missouri’s free pass, Theiss said, is that the state already had a system making delivery easy. “Other states have more complicated systems that require additional software and hardware to meet the state requirements,” he said.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">DATA DETECTIVE</strong></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s probably not surprising that technology offerings geared toward prisons and jails would take into account the possibility that these services could be used for illegal activities.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Keefe’s bid includes information on the measures it uses to watch for fraud and hints of criminal activity. It has a team of 12 investigators, combined with a data mining service called Data Detective, that keeps an eye on activity inside and outside the prison.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They compare deposit activity against email traffic and information from public databases to establish relationships and social networks involving prisoners and people on the outside. Anything suspicious is reported to prison officials, according to the bid documents.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s the part about watching people outside the prison that raises concerns among privacy advocates, even if those users are told that their activity may be monitored.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“They’re overreaching by invading the privacy of people who have committed no crimes and have done nothing wrong,” said <a title="http://www.aclu-mo.org/about/staff/sarah-rossi/" href="http://www.aclu-mo.org/about/staff/sarah-rossi/" target="_blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(59, 89, 152);">Sarah Rossi</a>, director of advocacy and policy for the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s unclear, though, whether the Data Detective service will be used in Missouri, even though the Department of Corrections asked for something like it when it sought bids.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A corrections spokesman said in an email that it’s not being used and is under review.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As for the privacy concerns, said Theiss: “That’s their opinion.”</p></div></div></div></div><div id="related-tags" class="tags clearfix" style="zoom: 1; padding: 15px 0px; margin: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); float: left;">Tags</h3><div class="tag-list" style="margin-left: 55px; 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SAINT LOUIS,MO 63105</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;">CRAWFORD GROUP</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;">3/2/2014</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;">$1,000</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;">Wagner, Ann L</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="typex" id="type0" total="139" name="Organization" style="padding: 10px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="dat_type" style="font-weight: 700;"><a class="orgsshowhide" style="cursor: pointer; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"><img class="typeimg " src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.opensecrets.org/usearch/img/og.gif" style="vertical-align: inherit; border: none; opacity: 0.6;" />  Organization<span class="dat_sum" style="font-size: 9px; font-weight: 400; margin-left: 5px;">(1 result)</span></a></div><div class="togdat" id="orgsdata0" style="width: 600px; padding: 10px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px -0.1em; padding: 3px 0px 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000042214" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none;">Crawford Group</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="typex" id="type1" total="139" name="Lobbying Client" style="padding: 10px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="dat_type" style="font-weight: 700;"><a class="orgsshowhide" style="cursor: pointer; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"><img class="typeimg " src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.opensecrets.org/usearch/img/lc.gif" style="vertical-align: inherit; border: none; opacity: 0.6;" />  Lobbying Client<span class="dat_sum" style="font-size: 9px; font-weight: 400; margin-left: 5px;">(1 result)</span></a></div><div class="togdat" id="orgsdata1" style="width: 600px; padding: 10px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px -0.1em; padding: 3px 0px 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000042214&year=2015" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none;">Crawford Group</a> 2015</li></ul></div></div><div class="typex" id="type2" total="139" name="Top Contributor to Member" style="padding: 10px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="dat_type" style="font-weight: 700;"><a class="orgsshowhide" style="cursor: pointer; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"><img class="typeimg " src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.opensecrets.org/usearch/img/m.gif" style="vertical-align: inherit; border: none; opacity: 0.6;" />  Top Contributor to Member<span class="dat_sum" style="font-size: 9px; font-weight: 400; margin-left: 5px;">(123 results)</span></a></div><div class="togdat" id="orgsdata2" style="width: 600px; padding: 10px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px -0.1em; padding: 3px 0px 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2014&cid=N00033106" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none;">Crawford Group</a> to Ann L. Wagner (R) in 2014</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px -0.1em; padding: 3px 0px 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2014&cid=N00029562" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none;">Crawford Group</a> to Ben R. Lujan (D) in 2014</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px -0.1em; padding: 3px 0px 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2014&cid=N00003288" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none;">Crawford Group</a> to Bennie G. Thompson (D) in 2014</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px -0.1em; padding: 3px 0px 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2014&cid=N00013770" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none;">Crawford Group</a> to Bill Shuster (R) in 2014</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px -0.1em; padding: 3px 0px 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2014&cid=N00030676" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none;">Crawford Group</a> to Billy Long (R) in 2014</li></ul><p style="padding: 5px 0px;"><a class="orgsshowall" style="text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Show All</a></p></div></div><div class="typex" id="type3" total="139" name="Top Contributor to Candidate" style="padding: 10px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="dat_type" style="font-weight: 700;"><a class="orgsshowhide" style="cursor: pointer; 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padding: 3px 0px 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/contrib.php?cycle=2012&id=MO02" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none;">Crawford Group</a> to Missouri District 2 candidates in 2012</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px -0.1em; padding: 3px 0px 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/contrib.php?cycle=2012&id=NC09" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none;">Crawford Group</a> to North Carolina District 9 candidates in 2012</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px -0.1em; padding: 3px 0px 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/contrib.php?cycle=2012&id=OHS1" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none;">Crawford Group</a> to Ohio Senate candidates in 2012</li></ul><p style="padding: 5px 0px;"><a class="orgsshowall" style="text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Show All</a></p></div></div><p><a name="Lobbying Client" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><a name="Top Contributor to Member" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><a name="Top Contributor to Candidate" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><a name="Top Contributor to Party Cmte" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /></p><div class="typex" id="type4" total="139" name="Top Contributor to Party Cmte" style="padding: 10px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="dat_type" style="font-weight: 700;"><a class="orgsshowhide" style="cursor: pointer; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"><img class="typeimg " src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.opensecrets.org/usearch/img/y.gif" style="vertical-align: inherit; border: none; opacity: 0.6;" />  Top Contributor to Party Cmte<span class="dat_sum" style="font-size: 9px; font-weight: 400; margin-left: 5px;">(2 results)</span></a></div><div class="togdat" id="orgsdata4" style="width: 600px; padding: 10px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px -0.1em; padding: 3px 0px 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/parties/contrib.php?cycle=2014&cmte=RPC" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none;">Crawford Group</a> to RPC in 2014</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px -0.1em; padding: 3px 0px 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/parties/contrib.php?cycle=2006&cmte=RNC" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none;">Crawford Group</a> to RNC in 2006</li></ul></div></div><p></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 20px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The holdings that comprise Enterprise Holdings span the globe, with operations reaching from Iceland to Brazil, from the Czech Republic to Jerusalem.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 20px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">However, the holdings of the Jack Taylor family extend even beyond Enterprise.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 20px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Enterprise Holdings is wholly owned by</span><span class="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The Crawford Group, which is held by members of the Taylor family. In addition to Enterprise Holdings — which includes the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent a Car brands, the Crawford Group holds a 21.7 percent stake in Shanghai-based car rental company eHi.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 20px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Enterprise Holdings, which had fiscal 2013 revenue of $16.4 billion, also recently emerged as one of the largest shareholders in Mobileye Technologies, a Jerusalem-based company that develops camera-based driver assistance systems that provide warnings for collision prevention. The company went public in July through a $900 million stock offering. Enterprise is the fourth-largest shareholder with 14.3 million shares, about 6.7 percent of Mobileye's total shares, worth about $616.5 million.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 20px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The family of <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/search/results?q=Andy%20Taylor" style="padding-right: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 78, 145);">Andy Taylor</a>, founder Jack Taylor's son, also is the majority owner of the Centric Group, a </span><span class="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">supplier to prisons and other correctional institutions that is one of the region's largest privately held companies</span><span class="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">. The Centric Group, which has 2,846 employees, reported 2013 revenue of $1.04 billion in 2013, up 2.6 percent from the previous year. <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/search/results?q=Andy%20Taylor" style="padding-right: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 78, 145);">Andy Taylor</a> serves as chairman of the company.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 20px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">The Crawford Group also owns Boone Valley Golf Club, in Augusta, Missouri, which it acquired in 1991 and which hosted the Boone Valley Classic, a Senior PGA Tour event from 1996 to 2000, as well as the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match Play Championship in 2001.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 20px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/search/results?q=Forbes" style="padding-right: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 78, 145);">Forbes</a> estimated the Taylor family's net worth at $13.6 billion, which put them at No. 34 on the magazine's recent list of the nation's 400 wealthiest people.</span></p><p>

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$143,200

$101,500

$86,475

$77,400

$73,200

$69,000

Mitt Romney (R)

George W. Bush (R)

Ann L. Wagner (R-MO)

Sam Graves (R-MO)

James M. Talent (R-MO)

Christopher Bond (R-MO)

John McCain (R-AZ)

Roy Blunt (R-MO)

John Ashcroft (R-MO)

Bob Dole (R-KS)

Republicans vs. Democrats

in dollars. "other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.

Republicans($4.0M)

Democrats($225.3K)

Other($13.8K)

State vs. Federal

in dollars

Federal($4.5M)

State($6.5K)

Top PAC Recipients

PAC Color BlockOrganization's PAC(s)Employee Color BlockAssociated Individuals

includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

$726,018

$398,900

$325,000

$247,940

$204,539

$151,110

$36,000

$14,185

$12,500

$12,405

Republican National Cmte

RNC/Repub National State Elections...

Restore Our Future

National Republican Senatorial Cmt...

Missouri Republican State Cmte

National Republican Congressional ...

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmt...

Republican Party of Ohio

Missouri Democratic State Cmte

Republican Party of Florida

View all campaign finance data for Crawford Group

Ben Barnes

Alan D. Solomont

Gray C. Boyden

Lawrence F. O'brien, III

Roy Pfautch

Harold Zirkin

Joel Jankowsky

Gerald SJ Cassidy

David Girard DiCarlo

Tonio Burgos

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