Why I Hate CCA (Corrections Corporation of America)

Just a quick link to follow up on the closure of the Otter Creek CF, a CCA prison in Kentucky that was at the center of numerous claims of ...

Mississippi, of all places, has had enough.  Not exactly known for its hospitable prison system, the state announced last Friday that it int...

Quick link here to a story about a press conference that was held by a group of mental health advocates in Sata Barbara, CA to discuss a rep...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida), chairwoman of the DNC, has heartily imbibed the "economic stimulus" Kool-Aid, and has public...

I just want to drop a quick link here and encourage everyone to go sign a petition on Change.org asking CCA to report on its efforts to redu...

Louisiana, the state with the highest rate of incarceration in the country, is considering selling its Avoyelles Correctional Center to a pr...

Another quick link here to a great story from the Huffington Post that captures much of the debate surrounding the proposed ICE/CCA facilit...

Another quickie here - I just wanted to drop a link to this excellent article from The Nation , which discusses the Irwin County Detention C...

Quick link here to a story about how Florida is moving ahead with plans to privatize healthcare for all its prisoners. After republicans tri...

The GEO Group owns BI, Inc., an electronic monitoring company, because apparently incarcerating immigrants wasn't bringing in quite enou...

Don't take it from me.  A spate of recent articles basically sums up how G4S, the world's largest private security firm, might be th...