{"id":1069,"date":"2012-02-26T17:55:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T22:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/corrections-corporation-of-america-a-critical-look-at-its-first-twenty-years.html"},"modified":"2012-02-26T17:55:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T22:55:32","slug":"corrections-corporation-of-america-a-critical-look-at-its-first-twenty-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/corrections-corporation-of-america-a-critical-look-at-its-first-twenty-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Corrections Corporation of America: A Critical Look at its First Twenty Years"},"content":{"rendered":"This is the report\n\nBobbi A. Hancock gave Andrea Schruijer Friday:<\/a>\n

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<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n\nGrassroots Leadership<\/a> published\n\nCorrection Corporation of America: A Critical Look at its First Twenty Years.<\/a>\nBy Philip Mattera and Mafruza Khan,\nCorporate Research Project of Good Jobs First,\nand Stephen Nathan, Prison Privatisation Report International. December, 2003.\nHere’s an extract from the Executive Summary:\n
\nCCA is the leading participant in, and in many ways the embodiment\nof, one of the most controversial industries ever created—the\nincarceration of people for profit. While the company is looking\nback through rose-colored glasses, there is a need for a critical\nanalysis of what CCA has brought to the world of corrections. That\nis the purpose of this report.\n

\nEven by its own standards, CCA has not been a success. Rather than\ntaking the industry by storm, it still manages only about three\npercent of prison and jail beds in the United States, and its global\naspirations had to be abandoned.\n

\nOnly a few years ago, CCA was being widely vilified\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

\nfor poor\nmanagement practices at a number of its facilities that were\nassociated with abuse, violence and escapes. At the same time, the\ncompany went through an ill-advised corporate restructuring which,\nalong with huge losses and crushing debt, nearly forced it into\nbankruptcy. In 2000 the chief executive of CCA, who had been one of\nthe firm’s founders, was unceremoniously forced out of office. The\nmanagement shakeup was accompanied by a $120 million settlement of\nlawsuits brought by angry shareholders.\n

\nDuring the past four years, the new leadership of CCA has worked\nhard to persuade investors, governments and the public that the\ncompany has fundamentally changed. Management would have us believe\nthat CCA is now free from the scandals and deficiencies that\ncharacterized its performance during the late 1990s.\n

\nOur main conclusion is that this is not the case. Thanks in part to\na concerted public relations strategy by the company and its trade\norganization, the Association of Private Correctional & Treatment\nOrganizations, CCA is no longer receiving a great deal of negative\nnational media attention, but that does not mean the underlying\nproblems have disappeared. Our review of court records, government\nreports and local news accounts shows that over the past several\nyears, CCA has been buffeted by numerous lawsuits and scandals\ninvolving allegations of:\n<\/blockquote>\nThe report goes on beyond allegations to numerous proven\nfacts that do not reflect well on CCA.\n

\nHm, 2003. That was before\n\nthe GEO private prison in Littlefield, Texas closed.<\/a>\nBefore\n\nthe state prison in Grayson County, Virginia never opened.<\/a>\nBefore \na majority of Americans decided they want to legalize marijuana use.<\/a>\nAnd before\n\nthe Florida Senate rejected a move to privatize Florida’s prisons.<\/a>\nSo that 2003 report is pretty damning about CCA, and things have\ngotten even worse\n\nfor CCA’s business model<\/a> since then.\n

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