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This launched the Corrections Corporation of America (CXW), currently the largest private prison company in the United States.

Corrections Corporation of America, the largest and most powerful private prison company in the nation, lost four prison contracts in the past month after extensive reports of abuse, neglect, and even fraud within their operations.

Not exact matches

Once a modest - size Medicaid provider, the managed - care company has expanded quickly — vaulting from No. 453 to 66 on the Fortune 500 in five years» time — and it has done so, in part, by entering markets that rivals have fled (Medicare Advantage, prison health care, the precarious Obama - care exchanges).

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

And within a span of six weeks this fall, Hillary Clinton caused a drop in biotech stocks with a tweet calling for greater regulation of drug prices, then single - handedly tanked stocks of private - corrections companies when she tweeted about prison reform.

Marco Muzzo, grandson of the company's founder, the late Marco Sr., was sentenced to 10 years in prison in February 2016 for impaired driving causing death.

She's more emblematic of the 1990s than of the 2000s, but remember this: Martha Stewart bet that by not appealing her conviction (for lying to prosecutors, in case you forgot) and by simply getting her five - month prison stretch done with in March 2005, she would minimize the damage to her reputation and quickly get her company back on track.

Having lost an appeal last month, the Frenchman now faces three years in prison and must repay the $ 4.9 - billion (or $ 6.3 - billion and significant change) lost by the company.

In fact, one of the judges of her competition happened to own a tech company who took Winner on as her mentor, employing her after she was released from prison.

The company, which was started by former prison inmate Frederick Hutson in 2012, now has 23 percent of the market share of federal prisons, according to Jealous.

Did anyone think that Martha Stewart's company could fully rebound after she was found guilty of violating insider trading laws and spent several months in prison?

«As the president of the Korea Ski Association, [Lotte] Chairman Shin Dong - bin was always interested in the Winter Olympics,» the spokeswoman said, adding that Shin's recent prison sentence for bribery would not affect the company's support for the Pyeongchang Olympics.

Waksal, who has a doctorate in immunobiology, was released from prison in 2008 and founded his second biotech company, Kadmon Holdings.

The largest donors to the various anti-weed political groups around the country include a billionaire casino tycoon, a woman who believes in reefer madness, a drug - crusading former U.S. ambassador, cops, prison guards, booze merchants, and a pharma company that sells the powerful painkiller fentanyl.

† In 2009, Kentucky declined to raise CCA's per diem rate at one facility because the company's prison was twice as violent as its state - run counterpart and because a suicidal employee smuggled in a gun and shot herself in the warden's officIn 2009, Kentucky declined to raise CCA's per diem rate at one facility because the company's prison was twice as violent as its state - run counterpart and because a suicidal employee smuggled in a gun and shot herself in the warden's officin a gun and shot herself in the warden's officin the warden's office.

CCA directed me to a 2013 report — funded in part by the company and GEO — that claimed private prisons could save states as much as 59 percent over public prisons without sacrificing quality.

Despite being pushed out of the companies he founded, he used his time in prison to teach himself how to code, without the internet using textbooks and his # 2 golf pencil.

CoreCivic, one of the largest U.S. private prison companies, has shelved a proposal to build a detention facility for undocumented migrants in Indiana after a series of community protests.

The case of Tyco International Ltd's disgraced former CEO Dennis Kozlowski, who is in prison for looting the company, shows how hard it is to fire someone «for cause.»

SendOwl star seller Mark Morris, whose company Introversion Software produces the hugely popular Prison Architect game, goes even further in his enthusiasm for bitcoin: â $ œWhen I first heard about bitcoins I got really excited.

And if you sat in a lonely prison far from all men, or if you were placed out upon a desert island with only animals for company, if you genuinely will the Good, if you hold fast to God, then you are in unity with all men.

Sounds like a worthwhile read and I tend to agree with the assertions from the book about the capacity to do evil coming from the facelessness of structure — and personally would include any structure in that — including churches, prisons, companies, and gov» ts.

Not just for construction companies but for such private enterprises as the Corrections Corporation of America, a Tennessee - based company that is leading the way in the exorbitant campaign to turn all prisons over to private enterprise.

«Back in 2009 [when the company started] they were putting people in prison for cultivating, so there was a lot of risk at that time, but there has been a huge paradigm shift,» Peterson explains.

Not pleased with the company Liston was keeping — one of his pals was 385 - pound Barney Baker, a reputed head - cracker for the Teamsters — the St. Louis police kept stopping Liston, on sight and without cause, until, on May 5, 1956, 3 1/2 years after his release from prison, Liston assaulted a St. Louis policeman, took his gun, left the cop lying in an alley and hid the weapon at a sister's house.

Over the past several years Daniels has placed about 25 former prison inmates in jobs in his own or other companies.

Yep, the guy who lost his Jordan F1 drive in 1991 after a prison sentence and started the career of the legendary Michael Schumacher now runs a company F1 fans will probably be familiar with.

There is a litany of serious flaws in several of the 58 sections of the bill, and here are some of them: the bill would compel registration of NGOs (including those already registered under the Companies and Allied Matters Act); heavily criminalize non-compliance with its provisions (up to 18 months in prison); ensure full executive control over the licensing, funding and supervision of operations of NGOs through a Board appointed by the president and dominated by political representatives.

«Blackmail can result in a 14 - year prison sentence, nobody in your UK company brought this fact to your attention?»

On Tuesday, a federal high court in Lagos had remanded him in prison alongside former Minister for Finance, Nenandi Usman, Mr. Danjuma Yusuf and a company, Joint Trust Nigeria Limited, on alleged money laundering to the tune of N4.9 billion.

Perverse economic incentives: Incarceration has become big business, from prison unions protecting lucrative jobs, to companies being given monopolies within the prison system (Until the FCC stepped in, there were instances of charging over $ 1 a minute for calls).

In Oregon, the company took state aid to create jobs — then hired prison labor for less than $ 1 an hour.

If Cohen was instead lobbying on behalf of any of these companies by contacting government officials, including Trump, on their behalf, he may have violated federal lobbying registration laws, which punish knowing and corrupt violations with up to five years in prison.

And republicans, in addition, are concerned about many other issues: the discrimination faced by the LGBT community, consumers at the mercy of retailers or companies, Internet users at the mercy of providers or regulatory states, children at the mercy of their parents or teachers, the elder at the mercy of younger disrespectful citizens, the kid being bullied by a classmate at school, the prisoner abused by his jail mates or by the prison authorities, etc..

Euphemistically called a «secure college» the proposed facility is, in reality, an enormous new prison built to save costs by warehousing children and contracting out its running to private sector companies such as Serco and G4S.

«I think we understand some things happened that should not have happened,» said Senate Democratic Whip Dick DurbinRichard (Dick) Joseph DurbinOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem lawmaker spars with own party over prison reform Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads MORE (Ill.).

Some abandoned prisons in the upstate area could become home to start - up companies under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Start - Up New York initiative.

A Manhattan judge sentenced the head of a mobile - phone aggregation company to 10 years in prison for a multimillion - dollar fraud scheme in which consumers were charged for unsolicited text messages containing horoscopes, trivia and celebrity gossip.

Public sector staff in eight more prisons have learned they face privatisation just two weeks after job cuts were announced by the company set to take over Birmingham prison, the Public and Commercial Services union says.

But in the end, it wasn't enough to avoid prison sentences: six - and - a-half years for Adam; five years plus a $ 500,000 fine for Dean, who, as senate majority leader, strong - armed companies into giving payments and largely no - show jobs to his son.

On June 8, City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced that the city had liquidated around $ 48 million in stocks and bonds related to three private prison companies.

Stringer then directed investment managers to liquidate all investments in companies that derive at least 20 percent of their revenue from private prisons, including both direct investments and stock owned as part of an index fund.

The charges include allegations that Kruger, Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland and previously convicted Queens Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio — who died in prison in January — received bribes and other largesse to help two competing health - care companies buy hospitals, and direct state funds to those firms.

This company was set up by the previous justice secretary, Chris Grayling, to sell its expertise in prisons and probation — including in offender management, payment by results, tagging and privatisation — around the world.

The G4S Olympics debacle, when the army had to step in and provide additional security staff, added to the concerns about the capability of private companies to run prisons safely.

The decision was strongly criticised by the unions, as was the decision to allow private companies to run the two new build prisons, HMP Oakwood and HMP Thameside which opened in Spring 2012.

Comptroller Scott Stringer said Thursday that New York City's pension funds had divested its investments in private prison companies, calling it the first such move by a major U.S. city.

Kushner Companies was founded by Charles Kushner, who spent 14 months in federal prison after being convicted in 2005 of tax evasion and election fraud.

Cor's «continued existence as a company and legal entity - and its ability to develop the Inner Harbor property - is uncertain in light of, among other things, its two primary officers facing the prospect of potentially lengthy federal prison sentences,» city lawyers wrote in legal papers filed Tuesday.

Georgiev, who had been working for a company on the other side of the country, had been released a few months earlier after having spent four years in prison, but the other medical workers, later dubbed the Tripoli Six, were waiting for death by firing squad.