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{{#badges:AEX}} [[image:CCAmap.png|thumb|CCA Facility Map, May 2013 <br>(Source:[http://prisondivestment.wordpress.com/private-prison-industry-industria-de-prisiones-privadas/corrections-corporation-of-america/ Private Prison Divestment Campaign])|right|500px]]'''CivicCore''' formerly called '''Corrections Corporation of America''' (CCA), incorporated in Maryland and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, is the largest owner of for-profit prisons and immigration detention facilities in the United States. The only larger operators of such facilities are “the federal government and three states,” according to CCA. <ref name="2012-10K">Corrections Corporation of America, [http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9NDk5ODE4fENoaWxkSUQ9NTM5NjYyfFR5cGU9MQ==&t=1 Annual Report/Form 10-K], February 27, 2013.</ref> It is publicly traded in the United States ([http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=CXW NYSE: CXW]) and had approximately 15,400 employees in 2013.<ref name="2013-10K"/> In 2013, CCA was converted into a real estate investment trust (REIT), which will help the company avoid tens of millions of dollars in corporate taxes.<ref name="Grassroots Leadership"/><ref>In the Public Interest, [http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/organization/corrections-corporation-america Corrections Corporation of America], organizational website, accessed August 1, 2013</ref> CCA's revenue in 2013 was nearly $1.7 billion, and it had profits of $300 million, 100 percent of which came from taxpayers via government contracts.<ref name="2013-10K"/>
Since its founding in 1983, CivicCore has profited from federal and state policies that have led to a dramatic rise in incarceration and detention in the United States -- a rise of 500 percent over the past thirty years.<ref>Katy Hall, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/11/cca-prison-industry_n_3061115.html CivicCore Letters Reveal Private Prison Industry's Tactics], ''Huffington Post'', April 11, 2013.</ref><ref>The Sentencing Project, [http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=107 Incarceration], organizational website, accessed August 7, 2013.</ref><ref>The Sentencing Project, [http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=128 Drug Policy], organizational website, accessed August 1, 2013.</ref> As of 2011, around half of all prisoners in state facilities were there for nonviolent crimes, and half of inmates in federal prisons were serving time for drug-related offenses.<ref name="BJS 2011">Bureau of Justice Statistics, [http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p11.pdf "Prisoners in 2011,"] U.S. Department of Justice, December 2012.</ref>