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Private Prison CEO Heads Search for United Way Leader
Loaded on Jan. 8, 2018
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2018, page 59
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic.
Location:
Tennessee.
Until recently, Damon Hininger, president and CEO of CoreCivic, formerly Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), served as chairman of the Board of Trustees for the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville (UWMN). CoreCivic is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
After UWMN CEO Eric Dewey, 54, died unexpectedly on March 31, 2017, the ...
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