The Corrections Corporation of America, the country’s second largest for-profit prison operator, is fighting to seal documents in a lawsuit that claims guards at a Tennessee prison required female visitors to undergo strip searches to prove they were menstruating. The lawsuit, filed by a woman in January 2015, alleges that as she passed through a security checkpoint on her way to visit a loved …
CCA, together with its subsidiaries, owns, operates, and manages private prisons and other correctional facilities in the United States, and provides inmate residential and prisoner transportation services for governmental agencies. The complaint alleges that CCA and certain of its executive officers made a series of false and misleading statements and/or failed to disclose to investors during …
A shareholder class action lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Corrections Corporation of America, a private prison company that was the subject of a recent Mother Jones investigation. Last week, the Department of Justice announced it would work to end its private prison contracts. The shareholders allege that CCA and its executive officers made false or misleading statements that put the …