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Two big questions linger after reading this flabbergasting story by Pierce Greenberg in the City Paper .

As investors become more and more worried about the world economy -- focusing on Greece with China and the U.S. in peripheral vision -- it makes sense to us to look into stocks that held up best in periods of market decline.

It's an issue any business of size has to consider: How might this shocking thing that happened on our watch affect us long-term? dealing with the fallout of a weekend prison riot in Mississippi.

Nashville-based prison profiteers Corrections Corporation of America have found a way to attract more negative attention to themselves.

The family of a Hawaii inmate strangled to death at a private prison in Arizona is suing the state of Hawaii and Corrections Corporation of America, saying the death would have been prevented if the state didn't ship prisoners to a mainland facility that neglects them.

Hot temperatures are expected Memorial Day weekend. With that in mind, you're urged to be careful if you plan to do any outdoor activities.

Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America, the for-profit private prison company that's been the target of a lot of criticism , is likely to be at the center of more media and government scrutiny after a riot at a Natchez, Miss., prison on Sunday left a prison guard dead and more than 20 people injured.

The latest sign that the Shelby County Jail continues to leave a troubled past behind is a first-of-its-kind award from a state agency for the jail's administrator.

The company that owns the Mississippi prison for illegal immigrants where a Sunday night riot reportedly left one guard dead has a history of alleged inmate abuse.

Manchester policeA arrested an escaped inmate from the Mid-State Correctional Facility early this evening at along Route 539 in the township.A Joseph Brandt, 27, of Browns Mills, was seen walking along the county highway and was taken into custody by Manchester police at 7:09 p.m., saidA Matt Schuman, a state Department of Corrections spokesman.

If outside bidders make a high enough offer, New Hampshire may be the first state with the dubious distinction of privatizing its entire male prison population.

Hundreds of inmates in Mississippi whose fight amongst themselves spiraled into a riot were back in their cells Monday afternoon, leaving authorities to mourn the death of one guard and express thanks that things didn't turn out worse.

Corrections Corporation of America, the private company that last year was accused of running Idaho's most-violent lockup - The Idaho Correctional Center - is dealing with a riot at another of its facilities, in Mississippi, where one guard was killed and eight others injured.

An uprising in the Adams County Correctional Facility near Natchez Sunday left at least one unidentified guard dead and several more transported to the hospital, officials said.

Source: www.seattlepi.com --- Sunday, May 20, 2012MS Prison riot leaves Guard dead, 6 hurt - Officials say a riot at a privately run federal Prison in southwest Mississippi that left one Guard dead and five other correctional officers and an inmate injured has been brought under control.

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A photograph May 8 misidentified a woman at the Music Hall in Marion. The woman in the photo is Melissa Andrews.

Gainesville - Officials with the Corrections Corporation of America have responded to claims in an ACLU report that illegal immigrant inmates are mistreated at two of their Georgia facilities, including the North Georgia Detention Center in Gainesville.

The White House plans to release a presidential memorandum later in the day that extends the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which now only applies to the Department of Justice, to all other federal agencies within the next 240 days.

The American Civil Liberties Union has invited the leader of the nation's largest private prison enterprise, Corrections Corporation of America, to a public debate on the merits of prison privatization.