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CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America ( CCA ), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. Co-founded in 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee by Thomas W. Beasley, Robert Crants, and T. Don Hutto, it received investments from the Tennessee Valley Authority ...
Hininger joined Corrections Corporation of America as a correctional officer at their Leavenworth Detention Center in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1992. [2] [3] Two years later, in 1994, he became a training manager at their Central Arizona Detention Center in Florence, Arizona. [2] By 1995, he joined the corporate headquarters in Nashville. [2]
The GEO Group, Inc. ( GEO) is a publicly traded C corporation that invests in private prisons and mental health facilities in the United States, Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, the company's facilities include illegal immigration detention centers, minimum security detention centers, and ...
In a news release announcing the groundbreaking for the prisons, Slattery called the new facilities “the future of American corrections.” Among the new Correctional Services Corp. prisons was the Pahokee Youth Development Center, which sat in the middle of sugarcane fields in a rural, swampy part of the state northwest of Miami.
Co-founder of Corrections Corporation of America. Spouse. Shirley Crants. Children. 2 sons, including D. Robert Crants, III, 1 daughter. Robert Crants (born 1944) is an American businessman. He is a co-founder of the Corrections Corporation of America. He served as its chairman and chief executive officer from 1994 to 1999.
Terrell Don Hutto (June 8, 1935 – October 22, 2021), known as T. Don Hutto, was an American businessman and one of the three co-founders of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), whose establishment marked the beginning of the private prison industry during the era of former President Ronald Reagan. [2]
In June 2013, Kentucky temporarily ended its decades-long relationship with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) (now CoreCivic), closing Marion Adjustment Center in St. Mary, the last private prison at the time that housed Kentucky inmates. This decision was widely applauded across the state, as the tax dollar savings totaled in the millions.
The American Correctional Association ( ACA; called the National Prison Association before 1954) is a private, non-profit, non-governmental trade association and accrediting body for the corrections industry, the oldest and largest such association in the world. The organization was founded in 1870 and has a significant place in the history of ...