CCA: America’s Leader in Partnership Corrections
CCA has a great story to tell, from the groundbreaking founding of our industry to the many highlights that happen each day at facilities and within the communities you call home. As the company continues to grow and focuses on future success, we need to make sure that the work we do gets told in the right way, every day.
Therefore, we need to focus on telling our story well. As the leader and founder of this industry, we believe that no one is better positioned to do so than we are.
Describing what CCA does is about much more than mincing words. And it’s deeper than semantics. Instead, it’s about making sure the right words are in place to describe what CCA does right and why we remain the right choice for so many governments.
After all, some of the terms that have been coined around what we do don’t adequately describe the services we provide. In many aspects of our lives, new terms become a part of our culture, and we’ll find ourselves using them, even if we didn’t develop them.
It’s All about Partnership, Not Privatization
Certainly privatization has become a word regularly associated with our industry, but the work we are really engaged in is a partnership in the truest sense. We don’t operate independently; we are uniquely a part of many major corrections systems that are subject to open review, ongoing monitoring, strict oversight and consistent accountability.
Therefore, the essence of our interaction with our government counterparts requires give-and-take on a daily basis and does not succeed unless both parties have a collective sense of a shared, mutual mission. Partnership corrections is the most accurate term that describes what CCA continues to do – and has always done. Our relationships with government are correctional partnerships. Even more precisely, we design, build and operate partnership prisons, partnership jails and partnership detention facilities.
CCA Has Partners, Not Customers
If you accept, as I hope you will, that the work we do everyday along side our government counterparts is a partnership characterized by collaboration and mutual benefit, then it is very easy to understand why we should refer to our government counterparts as something more than customers. They are our partners.
Partner is a better way to describe those who rely on us each and every day. Our relationships are founded upon and continue because of true collaborations. That is what defines a real partnership.
Your Role in Keeping CCA as America's Leader in Partnership Corrections
CCA has a responsibility to provide a meaningful public service. Correctional partnerships mean that CCA and governments work together to ensure taxpayers get the most out of every tax dollar. They harness the power of the marketplace to get the best deals and make the most progress toward a more prosperous future for states and communities. Creating partnerships with CCA to construct, manage and operate prisons gives governments the flexibility to invest more taxpayer dollars in critical priorities like schools, hospitals and parks. These partnerships make a difference in the communities you call home – and many others throughout the nation.
As the founder of the industry, CCA knows that correctional partnerships are an innovative, common-sense approach – business and government working together to ensure taxpayers get the most out of every tax dollar, while providing fair, humane treatment for America’s prison population.
As proud members of CCA’s national work force, we count on you with both your actions and words to help keep us positioned as America’s leader in partnership corrections.
Sound Out
Rob Van Pelt at Red Rock Correctional Center:
While studying for my B.A. in CJ with an emphasis in corrections, I wrote several papers about what I thought to be inherent dangers in the State relinquishing control of those they have convicted. Upon graduation, I went on to work for the Missouri D.O.C. and remained cynical regarding corporate corrections. To say that those concerns have been put to rest is a gross understatement. The level of internal accountability, integrity in performance, and committment to changing a broken industry is everything I hoped to find in an employer, and was sadly disappointed by the D.O.C. I believe our ability to remain seperate from constricting bureaucracy benefits our partners, and the industry.
Linda Sevison at Idaho Correctional Center:
A partnership is not a 50-50 deal but rather each party giving 110% to strengthen the relationship. You cannot have a partnership unless both parties are in agreement and looking forward to the same goals. As CCA employees, we have to continue to "sell" our programs and services to our partner and provide the best partnership service we are capable of providing long after the ink is dry on the contract.
James Carey at Diamondback:
While currently studying for my BA for Corrections I have been writing a paper on CCA, and am amazed at what this company has achieved along with the battles this company has won..Im proud to be a part of CCA.