Private Prison Reform

The largest private prison in Idaho will be taken over by the state due to a decade of mismanagement by Corrections Corporation of America, a private company from Nashville, Tennessee. …

Private Prisons Are Big Businesses

A private company, Corrections Corporation of America, sent letters to 48 states offering to buy each state's prisons. This supposedly would save the states money in these depressed times. The…

Control of Prisons Going to Private Companies

A proposed contract in Virginia between the state and the nation's second-largest private prison operator, GEO Group and a company managing mental health institutes, Liberty Healthcare Corp., would give these private…