Why I Hate CCA (Corrections Corporation of America)

Another quickie here to a story about guards who work for the GEO Group in Texas. At an immigration detention facility in Pearsall, the gua...

Quick link here to an article detailing the repeated sexual assaults suffered by multiple women at the hands of a psychiatrist at a CCA faci...

A fantastic report by Detention Watch Network, a nonprofit that advocates around immigration issues, shone a light on the shady lobbying act...

I'll let the lead-in sentence from the title link speak for itself: "The Republican plan to privatize food service in the state p...

A new report from the Institute on Money in State Politics finds that private prison interests spent $1 million to influence Florida's g...

Yesterday, SCOTUS ruled in Brown v. Plata that California must reduce its prison population by over 30,000 prisoners. Why? Because their s...

An excellent article in the New York Times from last week discusses how private prisons have failed to deliver on their promises of cost-sav...

In possibly only the second edition of our international series, this morning's link goes to a story about private prisons in Australia....

Those are the words used by Pedro Guzman to describe the treatment he received at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia, run by CCA. Guzm...

Two more quickies here. The title link goes to an article describing the "gross negligence" of a private healthcare provider, PHS...

I'll keep it brief here with just an excerpt from a message the Florida Police Benevolent Association (the CO union in Florida) has aske...