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A Pretty Penny for Prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

A Pretty Penny for Prisons by Brandon Gee Jan 04 2010 The prison business is proving recession-proof. But is it right to privatize penitentiaries? When Damon Hininger took over as president and CEO of Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America in October, it capped a 17-year journey from his first job with the company as a correctional officer in his hometown of Leavenworth, Kansas. Hininger now presides over a corporation that many believe could make a similarly meteoric rise out of the recession?and one that continually confronts skepticism and critics? philosophical opposition to what the company does. CCA is the nation?s largest private prison company and the fifth-largest prison manager in the country behind the federal government and three states...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).