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CCA Objects to Shareholder Resolution Filed by Former CCA Prisoner, PLN Associate Editor
Loaded on March 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2012, page 18
When PLN associate editor Alex Friedmann was released from prison in November 1999, he had served six of the ten years he spent behind bars at the South Central Correctional Center in Clifton, Tennessee, a private prison operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).Following his release he became a ...
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