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Protest Results in Three Arrests at CoreCivic’s Annual Shareholders Meeting

Loaded on June 7, 2018 published in Prison Legal News June, 2018, page 40
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Protests, Advocacy, Prison Reform. Location: Tennessee.

On May 10, 2018, drumbeats echoed and faux “blood” flowed through the parking lot at the Nashville, Tennessee headquarters of CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), as activists staged dramatic street theater to represent the sorrow, suffering and deaths of prisoners at the hands of the for-profit prison operator.

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