CoreCivic Crisis in Uncharted Waters at the Four Private Prisons in Tennessee

CoreCivic Crisis in Uncharted Waters at the Four Private Prisons in Tennessee

Private prison contractors have been around for a long time, but the concept of handing over management of an entire prison to a private company, to be squeezed for profit, only came into existence about 40 years ago. Private prisons began in the ’80s in Nashville, when a former Republican Party chairman and other similarly influential figures cofounded Corrections Corporation of America. The United States private prison boom, and the private pr…