Cornell Companies

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Cornell Companies Inc.
Type Public (NYSE: CRN)
Founded 1977
Headquarters Houston, Texas, USA
Area served USA
Key people James E. Hyman (CEO, Chairman and President)
John R. Nieser (Senior Vice President and CFO)
Industry Prisons
Revenue ▼ US$ 360.6 million (2007)
Operating income ▲ US$ 45.0 million (2007)
Website www.cornellcompanies.com
Cornell Corrections redirects here. For the university in Ithaca, New York, see Cornell University. For other uses of Cornell, see Cornell (disambiguation).

Cornell Companies NYSE: CRN is a large American corporation primarily concerned with providing corrections services and facilities to state governments on a contract basis. Cornell currently operates 81 corrections facilities in 17 states and the District of Columbia. The company's headquarters is located in Houston, Texas.

For a description of the original investment in Cornell by the venture capital arm of Dillon Read, now part of UBS, see Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Prison Profits [[1]]

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