Corrections Corporation of America Concepts

Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us From Citizen Kings to Market Servants

by Maurice E. Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi · 14 May 2020 · 511pp · 132,682 words

system in crisis. Thus, the siren song of the privatizers—Whatever the government can do, we can do better—proved very alluring. And in 1983, Corrections Corporation of America came on the scene to offer the country its first private prison—a motel in Texas that was remodeled to hold immigration detainees. Privatizing US

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none of them. The boon in private prisons has resulted in spending more tax dollars for poorer quality services. One mismanaged US prison—run by Corrections Corporation of America, the first of America’s private prison companies and one of the largest in the country—fostered such an extreme culture of violence among both

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for-profit prisons, marketplace incentives may be intrinsically contrary to society’s. Consider the following text from the 2017 annual report filed by CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America, until it was “rebranded” in 2016, at a time when its operation was under investigation). Under the heading “Risks to Our Business and Industry,” CoreCivic

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results can be much worse than horsemeat in your hamburger. Journalist Shane Bauer went undercover in 2014 as an entry-level correctional officer (CO) for Corrections Corporation of America (CCA; now CoreCivic), which employed him at Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana. His sobering account of his experience, which appears in his book American

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millions of dollars lobbying.24 As the Washington Post reported in 2015, “The two largest for-profit prison companies in the United States—GEO and Corrections Corporation of America [now CoreCivic]—and their associates have funneled more than $10 million to candidates since 1989 and have spent nearly $25 million on lobbying efforts.”25

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, 78–80, 82–91, 148–54 lobbying, 66, 127, 155, 159–160, 173–175, 177, 192, 272 Catch-22 (Heller), 142 cattle ranchers, 53 CCA (Corrections Corporation of America), 165, 166, 170. See also CoreCivic cell phones, 107–8, 196–98, 212–13 centrally planned economy, xiv, 228 CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau), 268

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competition machine conditions Cook, Tim, 221–22 CoreCivic, 166–70, 169, 173, 175, 177 Cornell University rejection rate, 15 corporations. See big business; specific businesses Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), 165, 166, 170. See also CoreCivic Costco and other club stores, 102–3 cream skimming, 169–70, 175, 183–87 credit card industry, 68

The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street

by Jonathan A. Knee · 31 Jul 2006 · 362pp · 108,359 words

this client list from hell, which included such favorites as Price Chopper, a small private chain of discount supermarkets based in upstate New York, and Corrections Corporation of America, a Nashville-based manager of prisons. Finally, I had that catalyst I had been looking for. “This is just a first cut,” I was told

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–96 conflict-of-interest issues, 20, 91, 157–58 consolidations of banks, 89–91 convictions of Wall Street figures, 137 Corporate Executive Board (CEB), 28 Corrections Corporation of America, 215 Corzine, Jon, 48, 98, 101–5 Coster, F. D., 44 coverage officer position, 89 Cowles family, 69 Cowles Media Company, 75 Crawford, Steve, 168

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire

by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson · 14 Apr 2020 · 491pp · 141,690 words

– 2009 the number of inmates in for-profit prisons increased 1,664%.105 • The private prison industry is estimated to be worth $70 billion.106 • Correction Corporation of America housed 90,000 inmates in their 62 facilities. • In 2011, CCA generated revenues of $1.7 billion. • 41 of the 62 private prison contracts have

A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

by Bruce Cannon Gibney · 7 Mar 2017 · 526pp · 160,601 words

its services (private prisons) to siphon off public funds to be transferred to their shareholders and Boomer executives. The largest of these private prisons are Corrections Corporation of America and GEO—the first founded by Boomers and the second by a Boomer-age immigrant raised in America and well immersed in Boomer culture. These

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

by Antony Loewenstein · 1 Sep 2015 · 464pp · 121,983 words

millions of people have passed without any deterrent effect on criminality. Needless to say, this system has enriched favored companies such as Serco, G4S, and Corrections Corporation of America. I investigate in both countries how lobbying, ideology, and a punishment ethos have colluded to produce one of the most destructive experiments in modern times

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the nation has increased by a factor of twenty since the 1990s, and the inmate population stands at thirty-one times what it was then. Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) was established in 1983 and ran its first prison in Texas in that year. Between 1999 and 2010, there was an 80 percent surge

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Corinth detention centre 64, 78–80 Corizon 209 corporate ideology 14 corporate power 7 Corporate Responsibility Coalition 187–8 Corporate Watch 255, 263 CorrectHealth 199 Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) 13, 197–8, 199, 201–2, 211–22, 227, 228, 284–5 corruption Afghanistan 24, 27, 42, 45, 328n48, 329–30n58 aid 126, 171

The Fissured Workplace

by David Weil · 17 Feb 2014 · 518pp · 147,036 words

federal law, their use has expanded dramatically in recent years and goes far beyond hotel/motel companies. Companies operating privately run prison and detention centers (Corrections Corporation of America), data and document storage operations (Iron Mountain), and casinos (Penn National Gaming) have been approved by the Internal Revenue Service for REIT status. See Nathaniel

Poverty for Profit

by Anne Kim · 384pp · 112,825 words

with so many other industries profiled in this book, a handful of firms dominate the private detention market. The two biggest are CoreCivic (formerly the Corrections Corporation of America [CCA]) and the GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut).113 Smaller players include the Management and Training Corporation (the same company that holds the monopoly on Job

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.117 While states struggled with the influx of inmates, prison entrepreneurs saw a golden opportunity to relaunch an industry. Leading the way was Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America (CCA, now CoreCivic), founded in 1983 by Republican Party activist Thomas Beasley and financed by venture capitalist Jack Massey.118 Massey had already made his

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pandemic-related benefits, 5, 206–8, 239n20, 239n22; and private prisons, 174–75, 182; TANF recipients, 57; youth unemployment and college attendance drops, 81–82 Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), 172–73, 175. See also CoreCivic corrections system. See criminal justice profiteers Corsair Capital, 15, 26 Cotter, Dennis, 136, 138 Council of Economic Advisors

With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful

by Glenn Greenwald · 11 Nov 2011 · 283pp · 77,272 words

over the United States, more and more prisons are managed not by government agencies but by for-profit private corporations such as Geo Group and Corrections Corporation of America. (In 2008, private prisons housed 7.5 percent of all inmates nationwide.) Those same companies accrue substantial revenues by providing contracting services to government-run

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essentially creating more business for themselves.” The report noted that significant sums of money were at stake. The country’s largest private prison provider, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), spent more than $2.7 million from 2006 through September 2008 on lobbying for stricter laws. Last year alone, the company, listed on the

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, Kent Consortium News Consumer Federation of America Contract with America Convention Against Torture Conyers, John Coolidge, Calvin Cordray, Richard Corn, David Corp Watch correctional population Corrections Corporation of America Countrywide Cox, Archibald Cox, Douglas W. Cramer, Bud Crawford, Susan J. credit default swaps credit rating agencies criminal justice Croatia Daily Finance Dark Side, The

The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy

by Peter Temin · 17 Mar 2017 · 273pp · 87,159 words

.21 The private prison firms communicate their interest in more prisoners to state legislators in various ways: by campaign contributions, personal relations, and lobbying. The Corrections Corporation of America has spent over $20 million on political campaigns and lobbying and is continuing these efforts today. They also lobby through the American Legislative Exchange Council

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rich and, 80–85 welfare state and, 21 Constitutional Convention, 62–64 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 91 Consumption, 4, 16, 79, 139–140, 158, 161 Corrections Corporation of America, 110 Corruption, 74, 93 Cotton, xi, 59, 115 Coverture, 56 Cross-country comparison African Americans and, 148 financial crisis of 2008 and, 150–151 FTE

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campaigns and, 38 Clinton and, 104 college and, 101–102, 105, 108, 110 competition for, 110–112 concepts of government and, 95 conservatives and, 110 Corrections Corporation of America and, 110 cost of, 105–106 discrimination and, 105 drugs and, 104–110, 112 federal funding and, 37 FTE (finance, technology, and electronics) sector and

Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy

by Benjamin Barber · 20 Apr 2010 · 454pp · 139,350 words

population has been turned over to private companies in the thirteen states that have surrendered their sovereign power of punishment to private vendors like the Corrections Corporation of America; or that there are currently more private security guards in America than public police. See Anthony Ramirez, “Privatizing America’s Prisons,” The New York Times