Why I Hate CCA (Corrections Corporation of America)

This story is almost too ridiculous.  A CCA shareholder introduced a resolution to the company that would require it to disclose information...

Video from a Congressional Briefing last Thursday on private prisons and mass incarceration.  It's long, but incredibly informative.

Prison Health Services, a private company that provides "medical care" to prisoners, has just been found negligent in the case of ...

Quick link here: two CCA guards were transporting prisoners in Colorado when the van they were in crashed and rolled over.  The initial inve...

...and another quickie: officials in Manchester, NH are working to re-draft a city ordinance to make it more difficult for private prison c...

Keeping up with today's short theme, here's a link to an article about a protest organized by the Occupy camp that took place in Ha...

Another quick link here.  Pennsylvania is one of many states that has seen an explosion in its prison population, and the prison budget, ove...

I just wanted to drop a quick link to an article from The Crime Report that came out earlier this week that discusses the growing divestment...

Just a quick link here to an article from Politifact that investigates whether or not private prison companies chase prisoners who escape f...

Hawaii contracts with CCA to house some of its prisoners on the mainland, because they don't have room for them in prisons on the island...

CEC is a smaller company in the private prison industry, but they certainly have their fair share of problems.  In particular they seem to h...