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Prison Realty Hires PR Firm
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2000, page 21
Nashville-based Prison Realty Trust, the parent company of Corrections Corp. of America (CCA), has hired a leading public relations firm to improve its image. In Sept. 1999 Prison Realty retained Los Angeles-based Sitrick & Co., which specializes in crisis management. Sitrick will handle Prison Realty's media relations and communications with …
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