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5 Jan 2017, 10:30 am
Donald Trump’s victory has been nothing but good news for the private prison industry.The day after the election, shares of the two biggest private prison corporationsCorrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group — jumped 43 and 21 percent, respectively. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 5:00 am by zshapiro
Thirty of the thirty-six co-sponsors received donations either from the Corrections Corporation of America ( CCA) or other corporations that own private prisons. [read post]
24 May 2013, 9:19 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Meanwhile the DEA, teamed up with the CCA They tryina lock n---s up, they tryna make new slaves See that's the privately owned prison, get your piece today They prolly all in the Hamptons, braggin 'bout what they made Though his subsequent equation of Hampton wives with Hampton property raises some troubling questions, Kanye is right to call out CCA, the Corrections Corporation of America, for how it 'gets [its] piece' in our national… [read post]
7 Nov 2017, 1:30 pm
Just over a year ago, the company — then named Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA — was in dire straits. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 7:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A couple of weeks ago, Grits quoted excerpts from a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) investor phone call in which company bigwigs predicted that Harris County would likely make a decision regarding privatization of its county jail by early next year now that election season had passed. [read post]
9 Feb 2014, 5:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
At the Motley Fool, a widely read investment analyst site, Bradley Seth McNew had an item Feb. 6 titled, "Why I sold Corrections Corporation of America" despite the companies recent high dividend yields. [read post]
7 Jun 2013, 8:57 am
One need only see the 20-year management contracts extended by Correction Corporation of America to those in 48 states (including California): the firm would purchase and manage the jails in that time frame, but the state had to promise to keep those jails at least 90 percent full. [read post]
8 Feb 2013, 1:39 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
States Should Run Screaming From the CCA to Avoid Dangerous and Disgusting Prisons Given the terrifying tales coming out of Ohio's Lake Erie Correctional Facility, states should get as far away as possible from the Corrections Corporation of America's (CCA) latest get-rich-off-imprisonment scheme: purchasing and running public prisons. [read post]
21 Jun 2013, 1:36 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Corrections Corporation of America Loses Four Prison Contracts This Month On Wednesday, news broke that Idaho is dumping the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and searching for a new company to run the state's biggest prison. [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 12:43 pm by Rachel Bloom, Racial Justice Program
It is worth noting that of the nine prisons in Idaho, ICC is the only one not run by the state, but rather by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). [read post]
31 Mar 2012, 4:40 pm by andré douglas pond cummings
” Based on the last sentence of Krugman’s description “And some of the most prominent beneficiaries of privatizations, such as . . . the prison operator Corrections Corporation of America, are, not surprisingly, very much involved with the organization,” he received a tense response letter from the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) trying to force a retraction for things that Krugman did not actually say. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 1:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
First, apparently most states, including Texas, are rejecting Correction Corporation of America's offer (see Grits' discussion) to purchase state-owned prisons if the states would guarantee 90% occupancy for 20 years. [read post]
13 Nov 2010, 9:14 am by Sex Offender Issues
The statements from the former Idaho Correctional Center guards are in affidavits filed in a federal lawsuit against the prison's operator, Corrections Corporation of America. [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 6:25 pm by Sasha Volokh
That same week, the Corrections Corporation of America hired a powerful new lobbyist to work the capitol. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 10:00 am
The news has already jolted prison profiteers: In the wake of the announcement, the stock prices of private prison giants Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group dropped precipitously. [read post]
25 Aug 2012, 10:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
It’s the second-largest operator of private prisons, trailing only Corrections Corp. of America (NYSE: CXW) of Nashville.But investors clearly prefer CCA. [read post]
31 Aug 2016, 7:30 am
If Secretary Johnson wants to understand the stakes, he should ask the family of José de Jesús Deniz Sahagun, a 31-year-old man who last year committed suicide at the Eloy, Arizona, detention facility run by the private Corrections Corporation of America. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 5:58 am by Joe Consumer
One of the biggest players in prison privatization biz is the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), an innocuous-sounding company which describes itself as "the nation's leading provider of correctional solutions to federal, state and local government" and which boasts of, among other things, "rehabilitating inmates, giving back to communities, and bringing innovative security to government corrections - all while… [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 5:58 am by Joe Consumer
One of the biggest players in prison privatization biz is the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), an innocuous-sounding company which describes itself as "the nation's leading provider of correctional solutions to federal, state and local government" and which boasts of, among other things, "rehabilitating inmates, giving back to communities, and bringing innovative security to government corrections - all while… [read post]