Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis.
CCA is the largest private corrections company in the United States. It manages more than 65 correctional and detention facilities with a capacity of more than 90,000 beds in 19 states. The company’s revenue in 2015 exceeded more than $2 billion.
Controversies related to the company include: treatment of inmates and disclosure of oversight, lobbying efforts to conceal details of operations, a lawsuit about gang influence in Idaho prison and substantial falsification of records, co-operation with local law enforcement in a school drug sweep, and the deadly 2012 riot in a Mississippi facility.
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Accepted Answer Date Created: March 23,2016