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CCA Anti-Prison Rape Shareholder Resolution Fails to Pass
Loaded on June 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2012, page 32
As previously reported in Prison Legal News, PLN associate editor Alex Friedmann, who owns a small amount of stock in Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), filed a shareholder resolution with the company in November 2011. The resolution requested that CCA issue reports every six months on its efforts to reduce ...
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic.
Locations:
Tennessee,
United States of America.
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