About ten years ago I got records from Linda Lingle for Hawaiian women held in Cornell's prison at Brush, CO. I also got them for Wyoming and Colorado women held there. I paid about $20 for records from each state. 

They'd been horribly abused: An ex-policeman guard had sex with women from all three states. They were moved from there to CCA's Floyd County/Otter Creek prison in remote Wheelwright, Kentucky, where the abuse was considerably intensified. I think they received zero visits in the first year they were there.

The American Correctional Association is equally troubled. It has received harsh criticism for 34 years about its accreditation program which doesn't remotely assess actual operations of prisons. Commercialized, it's hugely supported by revenues from for-profit prison operators such as CCA. The payoffs are equally massive. No matter how badly a for-profit is run, it is certain to pass ACA "standards." Two years ago its president was indicted on 49 counts of corruption.