Corrections Corporation of America (CCA): US concentration camps? 8 Articles

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by Sean Winkelmann

Corrections Corporation of America or CCA is the largest owner of privatized correction and detention centers in the USA. With a total of 63 facilities and a capacity of 67,000 beds in 19 states CCA specializes in inmate...read more

by Ted Sherman

My first reaction to why anyone would want to run a privately-operated prison is revulsion. However, looking at it realistically, making a living from someone else's troubles happens everywhere in our society. Look at the ...read more

by Crystal Martinez

This place of misery is beyond compare, It teaches those who've gone astray, to increase what they dare. It teaches the fool to lie, and teaches the hurt TO hurt Encourages children to violence, who needn't be pul...read more

by george chavez

Weelll...I used to work for Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) but I am able to give an unbiased opinion due to the fact that I was not employed by them I was a contract Registered Nurse who worked there through anot...read more

by DragonBlue

To Ask Why They were the unwanted children who grew up to be unwanted adults. They were the outcasts; the embryos that were not allowed to be aborted. The motherless children of a society with no compassion or love ...read more

by Erin Savage

I'm sitting here by the pool and it's a beautiful morning. The water is perfect, the sun is shining, I'm all oiled up and ready to drift off into that transcendental state of conscious unconsciousness that makes sunba...read more

by Sj Daley

I've heard of CCA, and heard of their prisons. I am a former corrections officer for the Florida Dept. of Corrections and it has been blackened by many scandals here in recent years, especially Correctional Facilities like...read more

by edward p mcclenahan

I just read the above article and I'm grateful for your words Sean. As an artist, paradoxically I don't play in the art world like so many do. Nor do I play in the world of "corrections." In graduate school, studying the...read more