Corporation · est. 1983

CoreCivic

Founded as Corrections Corporation of America, it launched the modern for-profit prison industry.

CoreCivic extended the logic of convict leasing into the present: a publicly traded company that profits from incarceration, operating dozens of facilities where incarcerated people perform labor for little or no pay — a through-line from the 13th Amendment's punishment clause.

Documentation

Articles·1

Article

My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard

Shane Bauer

An award-winning undercover exposé inside a private prison.

Websites·1

Website

History of Racial Injustice: Convict Leasing

Equal Justice Initiative

The convict-leasing-to-private-prison through-line.

The web

Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations — the links rarely drawn together.

profited from·Thread
Mass Incarceration
CoreCivic profits from incarceration and prison labor.
builds on·Thread
Convict Leasing & Debt Peonage
The private-prison model extends the logic of convict leasing.