Company Profile
Company Overview
Corrections Corporation of America
Our company – the first of its kind – was founded in 1983. Our approach to public-private partnership in corrections combines the cost savings and innovation of business with the strict guidelines and consistent oversight of government. This has produced proven results for more than three decades.
Our company designs, builds, manages and operates prisons, jails, detention centers and residential reentry centers on behalf of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the United States Marshals Service, many states and counties across the country
Company History
Founded as Corrections Corporation of America, this new start-up in the early 1980s changed the landscape of corrections in the United States. CCA could design, finance, build, operate and manage correctional facilities of many types in direct partnership with government agencies. The company could also tailor correctional solutions based on correctional agencies’ precise needs, with budget, population, classification, policies and procedures in mind.
The promise of public-private partnership in corrections was planted when CCA secured its first-ever contract with the U.S. Department of Justice for an Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) for the development and operation of Houston Processing Center. Within five years, CCA was being traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange and had earned ACA-accreditation for its earliest facilities. A decade after its founding, CCA had opened and assumed management of more facilities, including Leavenworth Detention Center, the first maximum-security facility under direct contract with a federal agency, managed by a corrections company.
By 20 years in business, CCA operated 60 facilities in 21 states and the District of Columbia, with 14,000 employees. After a quarter-century, the company had been named by Forbes magazine as the nation's "best managed company" in the business services and supplies category, plus recognized by G.I. Jobs magazine as a “Top 50 Military Friendly Employer.”®
Now entering its fourth decade, CCA continues to create new paths in the industry. The company still develops partnership models and new corrections innovations that reflect an even greater commitment to high quality safety and security, and rehabilitation and reentry.
Benefits
We provide your malpractice. Some of our facilities allow you to work 4 10 hour days. There is opportunity for advancement and growth. We have facilities across the country and you can apply for any position that you meet the qualifications.