while governor john k. sick made history yesterday as ohio became the first state in the history of this country to sell a state owned prison to a for profit private corporation the lake erie correctional institute opened up in two thousand and at the end of this year will be officially own and operate by the corrections corporation of america also known as c.c.a. which shelled out seventy two million bucks to buy the facility from the state and will now get paid for every single new prisoner they lock up c.c.a. is the largest private prison corporation in america and made over four hundred thirty million dollars in the last quarter of this year and the guy who runs ohio's department of go. patient correction and is us in charge of overseeing the state's prison there's a guy named gary mower which just happens to be a former employee of c.c.a. with c.c.a. is no stranger to getting what it wants namely more prisoners to lock up for more profits as a member of the right wing american legislative exchange council w