Corrections Corporation of America News

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to CCA's Fourth Quarter 2011 Earnings Conference Call.

Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America's earnings were down 7.3 percent in the fourth quarter compared to a year ago.

What happens if you privatize prisons is that you have a large industry with a vested interest in building ever-more prisons." -- Molly Ivins, 2003 For the past three years, the small West Texas town of Littlefield has had to come up with $65,000 a month to service a loan on an empty prison it never needed.

UAB students rallied together in protest against the HB56 anti-immigration law in Alabama.

Rick Scott and Republican legislative leaders. The push to privatize one-fifth of the state corrections facilities along with all inmate health care could net prison companies hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts, and those companies have spent millions in the past year trying to win support for the plan.

An employee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., waiting for the front gate to be opened.

A major factor in why US prisons are overflowing is the highly profitable privatised industry that has an incentive to fill them Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa county, Arizona, orders illegal immigrants to be moved into a separate area of a detention centre.

One benefit for reporters who cover prisons is the fact that there are many areas to dig around that are part of the public record, but dear readers, that kind of transparency doesn't exist where we need it most in Arizona - private prisons.

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Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of In the Public Interest , a national resource center on privatization and responsible contracting, sends us this.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Two people wanted in Vermont and considered armed and dangerous by authorities have been captured in Massachusetts.

Dan Prado, former assistant warden at the Nevada Southern Detention Center, has been brought back and named the acting warden, following the sudden departure of Roddie Rushing.

State Sen. Maria Sachs, D-Delray, speaks at a news conference in front of the Senate chamber Tuesday, Jan.

It would be a wonderful world if we didn't need prisons, but unfortunately we do.

The National Institute on Money in State Politics is highlighting the contributions of private prison companies to Florida politicians in its latest report, just as the Senate prepares to take up a massive prison privatization plan this week.

"Prison budget woes and crowding have been problems across New England. Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Department of Corrections released a report stating that it would have a 12,000-bed shortage by 2020 unless billions of dollars are spent to upgrade and expand facilities.

The settlement of a federal lawsuit between a private jail operator and Hernando County brings economic certainty to a fiscally strained county government.

Authorities took into custody overnight Thursday 38-year-old Robert Wayne Jennings and 40-year-old Troy Layne.

Yesterday, Corrections Corporation of America filed its latest appeal to block an open records request filed years ago by a nonprofit media organization.