“He Weighed 71 Pounds. That Was Like Somebody Starving.” Damien Coestly committed suicide at the private prison where I worked as guard. His family says he didn’t have to die.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BY CHANDRA BOZELKO -- If private facilities were to be well-run, then market forces might cause a needed shift in how public prisons treat their inmates.

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 ...

We can only hope CCA’s quest to create its very own for-profit prison empire by buying up prisons all over America will meet the same fate. Learn more about private prisons: Sign up for breaking news ...

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 ...

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.

Even as for-profit facilities lock up nearly 130,000 prisoners and take in billions of taxpayer dollars each year, these prisons remain shrouded in secrecy. The time has come for a robust public ...