CCA’s controversial Kentucky deal extended
Posted on September 15, 2009 at 7:20 amThe Kentucky Department of Corrections has extended by one year Corrections Corp. of America’s contract to house more than 400 inmates at a facility where seven cases of sexual misconduct were not reported to the appropriate officials.
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Kentucky official says state should take over CCA prison
Posted on September 11, 2009 at 1:33 pmThe Kentucky Department of Corrections should take the troubled Otter Creek Correctional Center off the hands of Corrections Corp. of America, the state’s House speaker has written in a letter to a fellow lawmaker. Not surprisingly, CCA officials aren’t terribly keen on the idea.
SEE ALSO: Other recent items about Otter Creek
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Kentucky’s conditions for CCA
Posted on September 8, 2009 at 9:37 am
Corrections Corp. of America must agree to a raft of operational and reporting changes if it wants to have its contract to manage hundreds of Kentucky prisoners renewed. The company’s Otter Creek facility has produced a boat load of negative pub of late.
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CCA guard in Kentucky charged with rape
Posted on September 2, 2009 at 7:08 amA 54-year-old guard at the Eastern Kentucky prison being investigated for various shortcomings has been charged with rape. He’s the fifth staffer at the facility to face sexual assault charges.
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CCA wants women
Posted on August 21, 2009 at 1:00 pmThe Nashville-based private prison operator is offering signing bonuses to new women guards at the Eastern Kentucky prison that is under government investigation. It’s interesting to note that investors — usually not ones to take regulatory risk lightly — haven’t given a hoot about the recent hoopla: CCA shares (Ticker: CXW) have risen by more than a third since Memorial Day.
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CCA’s Kentucky water gets hotter
Posted on August 17, 2009 at 8:04 amSomething tells you this won’t end well for the Nashville-based operator of prisons: The monitor checking up on CCA’s work at a Kentucky women’s prison that has been the source of several sexual assault allegations is finding other issues.
The state can fine the company up to $5,000 a day for violating terms of the contract, which include maintaining certain staffing levels and filling vacant positions within 60 days.
In fact — despite the sexual assault investigation — the state has agreed to extend for 60 days its contract with CCA to house up to 476 inmates at the facility while it negotiates a new two-year agreement.
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A monitor for CCA
Posted on August 11, 2009 at 1:54 pmThe Nashville-based prison operator is paying for an outside monitor hired by the Kentucky Department of Corrections to check on conditions in a prison where female inmates have reported sexual assaults.
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CCA fights Kentucky negligence accusation
Posted on July 31, 2009 at 1:32 pmCorrections Corp. of America has asked a Kentucky judge to dismiss the lawsuit filed by a prisoner who says the company (Ticker: CXW) failed to prevent her from being raped by a security guard and ignored other reports of sexual harassment and assault.
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