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Prison Realty/CCA Bailout Deal Canceled
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2000, page 6
On the cover of the July PLN we reported that the nation's largest private prison owner and operator, Prison Realty/CCA, verged on bankruptcy and that one of its principal shareholders, Pacific Life Insurance Co., planned to infuse a $200 million equity investment into the ailing company. When the July PLN …
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Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Financing.
Location:
United States of America.
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