Thirty years ago yesterday, two retired military officers and a former prison administrator founded the Corrections Corporation of America Corrections Corporation of America CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. Co-founded in 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee by Thomas W. Beasley, Robert Crants, and T. https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › CoreCivic CoreCivic - Wikipedia (CCA), the first for-profit prison company in modern America. Today, CCA is the nation's largest owner and operator of for-profit prisons, with annual revenues topping $1.7 billion.