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15 Mar 2010, 1:28 pm
ACLU BOISE, ID – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Idaho today filed a class action federal lawsuit charging that officials at the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC) promote and facilitate a culture of rampant violence that has led to carnage and suffering among prisoners at the state-owned facility operated by the for-profit company Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 8:33 am by Gritsforbreakfast
What's more, the Board of Pardons and Parole hasn't really been using the Mineral Wells facility the way it was intended, so there's no special reason to keep it opened compared to, say, Intermediate Sanctions Facilities on the list.Equally interesting to me is the fact that the Dawson State Jail's contract with Corrections Corporation of America is up for renewal next January. [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 5:51 am
BizJounals Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America (NYSE: CXW), the nation’s largest private prison operator, has officially lost a contract with the state of Arizona for its 752-bed Huerfano County Correctional Center in Colorado. [read post]
21 Jan 2010, 6:21 pm by @ErikJHeels
(Boston, MA) Cca Cooperative Corporation (Jamaica Plain, MA) Cds Beach Corporation (Plymouth, MA) Cds Investments Inc. [read post]
21 Jan 2010, 6:54 am
CNN Money CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) (NYSE: CXW), the nation's largest partnership corrections provider to government agencies, announced today that the proposed budgets by the Arizona Governor and Legislature, released on January 15, 2010, would phase out the utilization of private out-of-state beds. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 8:33 pm
The objective is to criminalize these migrants and have them spend time in the private Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), thereby serving as a disincentive for other would-be migrants. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 5:23 pm
How does the UCMJ provide jurisdiction to a CCA to rule on a dispute between the United States and a private corporation that is not now, and has never been, a member of the U.S. military? [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 9:45 am
"Ex-CCA official: Puryear misled clients; Versions for public allegedly whitewashed prison incidents": Friday's edition of The Tennessean contained an article that begins, "A former Corrections Corporation of America manager is accusing the company's general counsel and federal judicial nominee Gus Puryear IV of overseeing a practice that produced misleading reports about safety incidents at its prisons. [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 1:52 pm
"Scrutiny for a Bush Judicial Nominee": At Time magazine's web site, Adam Zagorin has an article that begins, "As the top lawyer for America's biggest private prison company, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), Gus Puryear IV, is known to sport well-pressed preppy pink shirts, and his brownish mop of hair stands out among most of President Bush's graying nominees to the federal bench. [read post]
11 Mar 2008, 5:11 am
Harsher sentencing policies have put more criminals behind bars and prison management firms such as the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and The GEO Group are racing to build new jails or expand existing facilities. [read post]
9 Mar 2008, 8:33 pm
Puryear is general counsel of Nashville-based private prison giant Corrections Corporation of America and was nominated by Republican President Bush. [read post]
21 Feb 2008, 4:28 am
"   Here is a snippet:[Federal judge nominee Gustavus Adolphus] Puryear has spent the bulk of his legal career at the Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America, the nation's largest private prison company. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 9:08 pm
From yesterday's Indianapolis Star, Nurses file whistleblowing suit against jail company:Six Indianapolis-area nurses filed a whistleblowing and racial discrimination lawsuit today against Corrections Corporation of America, which operates Marion County Jail #2 in Indianapolis. [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 7:59 pm
The Corrections Corporation of America, which operates private prisons, has separate "faith pods" housing about 1,660 inmates at 24 prisons in 13 states. [read post]
26 Mar 2007, 12:25 am
LEXIS 6928 (9th Cir., March 12, 2007), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an Arizona federal district court dismissal of a claim against a prison chaplain, the warden, and Corrections Corporation of America at a CCA-operated prison. [read post]
22 Mar 2007, 2:52 pm
The medium security facility, run by Corrections Corporation of America imprisons infants and children who have done no wrong themselves, but whose parents have pending political asylum applications or are subject to deportation. [read post]