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What's New:
GEO: SEC excludes shareholder resolution
PCI press release, January
2014
American Correctional association
meets in Tampa –Organizatin tainted by Conflicts of
interest, Private prison influence, Financial incentives
PCI press release, January
2014
Vermont:
CCA has to turnover public records
PCI press release, January
2014
Private Prison Awards January 2014
PCI press release, January
2014
Alex Friedman responds to CCA's Kim White
Gun Found in Segregation Cell at Privately-operated
Mississippi Prison
PCI press release, Oct 25,
2013
Federal Court Unseals Documents in Motion to Hold
Corrections Corporation of America in Contempt for Staffing Violations at
Idaho Prison
On August 16, U.S. District
Court Judge David O. Carter, sitting by designation, unsealed a number of
court documents related to a motion seeking contempt sanctions against
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest for-profit
prison company, for violation of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that
alleged high levels of violence at the CCA-operated Idaho Correctional Center
(ICC)
Thomas Wierdsma, Sr. V.P. GEO
Group, Inc.
Video deposition posted
December 6, 2012.
CCA Political Contributions Report 2011
Immigrants
prove big business for prison companies
Locking up illegal
immigrants has grown profoundly lucrative for the private prisons industry, a
reliable pot of revenue that helped keep some of the biggest companies in
business.
Justice Policy Institute and Grassroots Leadership
letter to Virginia Governor McDonnell Eleven organizations signed on to
urge Governor McDonnell not to privatize the state's civil commitment
facility.
Corrections Corporation of America to Lose 9,588
Contract Beds, Misses Out on Two Federal Detention Contracts.
CCA is expected to lose
9,588 California contract beds within the next four years; company misses out
on federal immigration detention contracts in Illinois and Florida.
Abolish Private Prisons, Says UCC Southwest Conference
Phoenix, AZ.
The 46 churches of the
United Church of Christ that comprise the Southwest Conference are calling
for the abolition of private prisons.
Prison Bed Profiteers: How Corporations Are Reshaping
Criminal Justice in the U.S.
National Council on Crime
and Delinquency on the booming business of private prisons.
Groundbreaking Anti-Prison Rape Shareholder Resolution
to be Presented at Annual Meeting of Corrections Corp. of America
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