CoreCivic
| CoreCivic Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US21871N1019 |
| founding | 1983 |
| Seat |
Nashville , Tennessee , United States
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| management | Damon T. Hininger (CEO) |
| Number of employees | 17,500 (2010) |
| sales | 1.67 billion US $ (2010) |
| Branch | Prison industry |
| Website | http://www.cca.com |
CoreCivic Inc. , formerly Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is an American company headquartered in Nashville , Tennessee that specializes in the operation and management of private prisons .
The company currently operates over 60 facilities in the United States, 44 of which are owned by the company. In these institutions around 75,000 inmates are currently cared for by over 17,000 employees. The company was founded in 1983 by Tom Beasley, Don Hutto and Robert Crants. In 1984, the Houston Processing Center opened, the first facility under the direction of the CCA. Since then, the company has developed into the largest American service provider in the prison industry , alongside the Management and Training Corporation and the Geo Group .
structure
In 2016, the company changed its name to CoreCivic and introduced a new corporate structure. CoreCivic is divided into three different areas:
- CoreCivic Safety - operation of private prisons
- CoreCivic Properties - Management of other real estate for the US government
- CoreCivic Community - operation of residential centers for rehabilitation
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Klaus Staeck: The privatized monopoly of force. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 2, 2012, accessed February 2, 2012 (column on the dangers of privatizing the operation of prisons).
- Shane Bauer: My four months as a private prison guard Mother Jones , July / August 2016 (report on the conditions in a prison operated by CCA / CoreCivic).