CoreCivic's Third Annual ESG Report Shows Steadfast Commitment to Reducing Recidivism, Focus on Keeping People Safe and Front...
May 12 2021 - 10:47AM
CoreCivic, Inc. (NYSE: CXW) (the Company) today
released its
2020 Environmental, Social and Governance
(ESG) Report detailing its steadfast response to the
challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the third annual
report issued by the Company since 2019.
The report illustrates how the company worked to
keep people safe while finding innovative ways to carry out life
changing programming that equips individuals to succeed after
incarceration. It shows the resiliency of front line professionals
who worked tirelessly to protect human life while adapting to safe
alternatives to in-person reentry programming. It also highlights
the Company's progress in protecting the environment and promoting
excellence in its corporate governance.
“Like any enterprise worth its salt, we change
to get better,” said Damon Hininger, president and chief executive
officer. “We believe in constantly striving to be a better company
and to find ways to make the most difference for the people we care
for and our country as a whole. I could not be more proud of our
team of prepared, energetic and always-eager-to-improve reentry
professionals who introduced safe and socially-distanced
alternative programming while conforming to evidence-based best
practices.”
The 40-page document’s release marks two years
since the Company broke ground with the industry’s first ESG
report. Previous reports documented substantial progress toward
CoreCivic’s first-ever industry initiative to set and achieve
five-year reentry goals, an effort that was completed in 2019. The
2020 report defines the Company’s continued commitment to
evidence-based practices for reentry, informing future goals and
enabling individualized interventions based on a person’s specific
needs and their risk of future involvement in the justice
system.
While CoreCivic was forced to temporarily
suspend some in-person reentry services in 2020 due to COVID-19,
limiting its ability to deliver programming at the level it
normally would, the Company laid the groundwork for a new, more
illuminating approach to reentry. The new approach will continue to
set goals for program delivery, which will be disclosed in future
reports. However, it will also measure and track performance tied
to effective outcomes for individuals in the reentry process,
rather than using program completion rates alone.
The report also outlines the Company’s pandemic
response, illustrating how CoreCivic’s long-standing infectious
disease management plans were adapted to the unique needs of the
COVID-19 pandemic. The Company’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
was activated early in the pandemic and continues to operate 24/7
with state-of-the-art software to track and monitor developments in
real time. A special Coronavirus Response Committee (CRC) was also
assembled, including the Company’s chief medical officer, to manage
response efforts and ensure alignment with Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance. The Company also continually
evaluated and adapted supply chains to ensure adequate supply of
personal protective equipment (PPE) companywide. “While any loss of
human life carries incalculable costs that millions of families
around the world have felt during this crisis, I am grateful for
the collective efforts of our facility leaders and staff who worked
tirelessly to protect lives over the past year,” Hininger said.
“From nurses and correctional officers to supply chain analysts, we
put the right people in the right places, and their efforts were
nothing short of heroic.”
The report cites findings by the U.S. Department
of Justice’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) that
contractor-operated U.S. Marshals Service facilities like those
operated by CoreCivic were safer, more accountable and more
responsive in mitigating risk from COVID-19 than publicly operated
facilities.
Other topics covered in the report include:
- Development of 2021 human rights
goals, which include implementation of a new human rights policy,
facility-level risk assessments and delivery of training to more
than 95% of employees
- Work to accelerate diversity,
equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, including the establishment of
a DEI Council and Board-level DEI Committee, conscious inclusion
training for leaders, and a comprehensive culture survey to gauge
areas for improvement
- Environmental sustainability
practices and goals, including smart water controls, LED retrofit
projects and green design and operations techniques to reduce the
Company’s carbon footprint
- Community support efforts, through
which CoreCivic contributed more than $2.7 million to organizations
working with formerly incarcerated people, victims of crime,
underserved youth and those impacted by the pandemic
- Policy advocacy for state and
federal legislation that removes barriers to reentry for
justice-involved individuals and reduces recidivism. The Company
successfully advocated for, among other measures, restoring Pell
Grants, voting rights and expungement opportunities for formerly
incarcerated people
- Advocating for the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) to have states cap intrastate
Inmate Telephone Services rates to better enable families to stay
in contact with incarcerated loved ones
About CoreCivic
CoreCivic is a diversified government solutions
company with the scale and experience needed to solve tough
government challenges in flexible, cost-effective ways. CoreCivic
provides a broad range of solutions to government partners that
serve the public good through corrections and detention management,
a network of residential reentry centers to help address America’s
recidivism crisis, and government real estate solutions. CoreCivic
is the nation’s largest owner of partnership correctional,
detention and residential reentry facilities, and believes it is
the largest private owner of real estate used by government
agencies in the U.S. CoreCivic has been a flexible and dependable
partner for government for more than 35 years. CoreCivic’s
employees are driven by a deep sense of service, high standards of
professionalism and a responsibility to help government better the
public good.
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