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Shareholder Resolutions Seek to Lower Phone Rates at Private Prisons
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2014, page 44
On November 26, 2013, shareholder resolutions were filed with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and The GEO Group, Inc. – the nation’s two largest for-profit prison companies; the resolutions seek to reduce the high cost of phone calls made by prisoners at CCA and GEO facilities nationwide.
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Telephone Rates.
Location:
United States of America.
Prison phone rates ...
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