August 11, 2008
New chief leads CCA amid scrutiny
Damon Hininger was named president and chief operating officer of private prison operator Corrections Corporation of America late last month.
He takes a key leadership role in Nashville-based CCA at a time when its industry is under close scrutiny — and sometimes ensnarled in lawsuits — for what prison reform activists see as poor treatment or even abuse of inmates.
One celebrated case in Nashville, the death of prisoner Estelle Richardson under suspicious circumstances in a Metro detention center in 2004, continues to have repercussions today with calls to further investigate a case that local criminal authorities say is a cold one — although not a closed one. CCA settled a civil lawsuit linked to Richardson's death two years ago…
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