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Guard Killed In Riot At Private Immigration Prison In Mississippi

Eric Lach | May 21, 2012, 4:33PM

One guard was killed and 19 other people were injured on Sunday during a riot at a private Mississippi prison that holds illegal immigrants. The Associated Press reports that as many as 300 inmates, "some of them armed with makeshift weapons such as broomsticks," were involved in the incident at the Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez, Miss.

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Topics: Corrections Corporation of America, Immigration, Private Prison Industry

Corrections Corporation of America

Cash-4-Prisons: Corrections Corporation of America Offers To Buy State Facilities

Ryan J. Reilly | February 14, 2012, 12:40PM

Attention states with a corrections budget crunch: the Corrections Corporation of America is here to help. The Huffington Post reports that the for-profit prisons giant sent letters to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons in exchange for a 20-year management contract and the guarantee that the facilities would be at least 90 percent full.

The letter came from Harley Lappin, the former head of the federal Bureau of Prisons who resigned last spring following a drunk driving incident. Lappin wrote that they believed the offer comes at a "timely and helpful juncture and hope you will share our belief in the benefits of the purchase-and-manage model."

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Topics: Corrections Corporation of America, Florida

Bennie Thompson

Party Favors: House Staffers' Event Planning Biz Specializes In Bashes For Top Dem Rep

Justin Elliott | December 11, 2009, 12:13PM

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS)

A party planning side business run by three current and former congressional staffers raked in over $20,000 last year from lobbyists holding events to honor Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) -- whose own communications director is co-founder of the firm.

The apparent arrangement between Thompson and the business, Chic Productions, at once allows private interests to get closer to the congressman's office and gives the staffers a way to dip a straw into the river of outside money flowing through Capitol Hill.

Chic Productions offers "high style events with simple elegance" and advertises its previous work executing "congressional events and fundraising parties." One of Chic's principals was quoted in 2007 saying congressional events make up roughly 90 percent of the firm's business.