Why I Hate CCA (Corrections Corporation of America)

Quick link here to a Newsweek story about how the recession is hurting business for private prison operators.  Aside from that wonderful new...

The link goes to a fantastic article by Harvey Silverglate and Kyle Smeallie from 2008 that exposes some of the motives of law enforcement p...

CCA is one of the primary sponsors of a $550,000 dinner being thrown for the Western Governors' Association.  Because they were just so ...

Just a quick link here to a story from Hernando County, Florida, which is sorting its way through a mess of a maintenance situation that res...

Governor Lingle of Hawaii has threatened to veto a measure pending before Hawaii's legislature that calls for an audit of the state'...

Kentucky is pulling its inmates out of a CCA-run prison in the eastern part of the state, in order to save money.  Yep, you read that right.

I strongly recommend everyone stop what you're doing and go read the article linked to in the title.  It concerns the American Legislati...

Just a quick link here to a great piece by G.W. Schultz at the Center for Investigative Reporting, documenting all the recent messes CCA has...

Following the deaths of two Hawaiian inmates at the Saguaro Correctional Facility in Arizona, which is run by CCA, the state's contract ...

So I've heard from a few folks who asked me to include some reports on private prisons in other countries (other than the US, that is). ...

The son of a Texas prisoner who died in a GEO facility is suing the company for corruption and negligence in his father’s death, seeking $59...

A man charged with murdering someone at a playground in broad daylight was wrongfully released from confinement in Pennsylvania earlier this...