Damon T. Hininger

Damon T. Hininger is the CEO of Corrections Corporation of America,Inc.(CXW) . Hininger joined Corrections Corporation of America as a correctional officer at their Leavenworth Detention Center in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1992. Two years later, in 1994, he became a training manager at their Central Arizona Detention Center in Florence, Arizona. By 1995, he joined the corporate headquarters in Nashville. He has served as its chief executive officer since 2009. In 2014, he announced his plan to offer more educational training for prisoners to find employment once their sentence comes to an end.

Under Hininger's leadership, the Corrections Corporation of America rebranded as "CoreCivic" and was sued—along with Hininger personally—by shareholders for inflating its stock price by misrepresenting the quality and value of its services following the federal Bureau of Prisons' decision to phase out CoreCivic's contracts due to outsized safety and security concerns. The suit was settled for $56 million. Hininger's deposition in the case is sealed, and CoreCivic has opposed efforts to unseal it.