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Nation’s Largest Private Prison Companies Trying to Do the REIT Thing
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2013, page 42
In early January 2013, both Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group – the nation’s two largest private prison companies that control a combined 75 percent of the for-profit prison market in the United States – announced that they had each completed preliminary plans to convert their corporate ...
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
GEO Group/Wackenhut.
Location:
United States of America.
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