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The Corrections Corporation of America is founded.
Date: 1983
Prison Industrial Complex
Corporations
It is the first and largest of all contemporary private prison corporations. Its early stages are backed by a venture capitalist, who helped found and fund both Kentucky Fried Chicken and the Hospital Corporation of America.
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