CCA Spends $1.3 Million on Lobby Efforts

October 17, 2007December 16, 2009 1603 Views Security and Safety

WASHINGTON — Corrections Corporation of America spent $1.3 million lobbying the federal government during the first six months of 2007, according disclosures filed with the Senate’s public records office.

The company, which is the largest private prison operator in the United States, lobbied Congress, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Homeland Security and Justice Departments, on legislation, regulations and other issues related to the management and operation of private prisons.

CCA, which also lobbied lawmakers and government agencies on immigration reform and year 2008 fiscal spending s, paid one Washington law firm $120,000 in the first half of 2007, according to federally mandated disclosures.

CCA, which operates about 72,000 beds at 62 facilities in 20 states, ranks as the fifth-largest prison system in the United States after the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the state systems of California, Texas and Florida.