We are living in boom times for the private prison industry. The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest owner of private prisons, has seen its revenue climb by more than ...

The private prison firm CCA is renaming itself CoreCivic as it seeks to diversify into prisoner re-entry programs, building jails, and maintaining them, rather than just guarding and operating the ...

Each private prison company has its own rap sheet, and CCA’s alone is longer than War and Peace. It includes details of a 2006 Colorado lawsuit in which CCA employees were accused of instigating ...

Getting out of prisons. A divestment movement targeting private-prison companies has convinced some major investors to cash in their CCA stocks. Some recent divestments and their estimated values ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) – The nation’s largest private prison company is being held in contempt of court by a federal judge for chronic understaffing at an Idaho prison. U.S. District Judge David ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. In February 2010, falling prisoner numbers caused the country’s largest private prison company, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), to shutter its only ...

CCA stock 10 year chart (Photo credit: faul) Interesting new report from advocates against private prisons. Grassroots Leadership has the full PDF here, which takes aim at Corrections Corporation ...

A guard escorts a detainee at a facility in Adelanto, CA, run by the GEO Group, one of the largest private prison companies in the United States, on November 15, 2013.

Public hearing Tuesday on plan to add 2,000 private-prison beds. CCA, which has had a presence in Arizona since 1994, currently houses 929 state inmates at Red Rock.

Nation's largest private prison company is shifting its focus toward helping release more inmates and keep them out, in an effort to reduce costs associated with recidivism.

CCA/CoreCivic’s takeover of reentry services could negatively affect thousands of formerly incarcerated people and contribute to further expansion of our already bloated and flawed criminal justice ...

Similarly, CCA, the first and largest private prison company in the U.S., has said in annual reports that "demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of ...