Employees Share March Updates on New Year’s Resolutions

Spring is in the air and for two CCA employees, ‘tis the season for getting greener and leaner. Rebecca Williams, accounting clerk at North Fork Correctional Facility, continues working to reduce her carbon footprint while Patrick Jablonski, CCA senior director, Quality Assurance Research and Analysis, is pursuing outdoor activity as a way to drop more pounds. Get the latest update on their progress and share your thoughts by sounding out. Read More

When is it Sexual Harassment?

What you should know about sexual harassment and how to keep it from happening

Imagine you’re on your shift chatting with a group of co-workers – men and women, correctional officers and shift supervisors. A shift supervisor tells a joke about something he saw on TV last night – a joke that’s sexual in nature. No one objects and almost everyone laughs. Could this be sexual harassment? Get the facts and learn how you can keep sexual harassment out of your workplace. Read More

Cell Search

Lock Down on Cell Phone Contraband

Recent media coverage has reported the use of cell phones to order the murder of a witness in Maryland and to organize a riot in an Oklahoma prison. Additionally, cell phones have reportedly been used to facilitate drug trafficking, organized crime and orchestrate escapes or other incidents. See how CCA is addressing the issue of cell phones. Read More

Damon Hininger to Complete Companywide Tour in 2010

President and CEO brings facility stops full circle in New Year

When Damon Hininger was named CCA president and chief operating officer in July 2008, the corrections veteran set a lofty goal – to visit each of the company’s more than 60 correctional facilities over the next two years. Now the CCA chief executive officer – an appointment to which he was named in August 2009 – is on the cusp of completing that mission. Read More