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Prison Realty Stock Plummets; Shareholders File Suit
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1999, page 13
Last May the price of shares in Prison Realty Trust Inc., the parent company of Corrections Corporation of America, fell almost 35% within a week after Prison Realty announced it would pay increased costs for building and marketing private prisons. Several investment firms downgraded Prison Realty's stock, which dropped to ...
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Financing.
Location:
Tennessee.
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