CoreCivic, Inc. - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

CoreCivic, Inc. is Medium Risk.

CoreCivic is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. CoreCivic occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	Lower Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

CoreCivic integrates ESG into its business practices. From its 2021 ESG Report: “Compensation for our executive leadership team is tied to performance in ESG areas identified in our corporate strategic plan” (1). However, CoreCivic has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (2)(3).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

CoreCivic does not discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1)(2).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

CoreCivic requires its employees to take DEI training (1)(2)(3). CoreCivic appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its recruitment, leadership composition, and supply chain. From its 2021 DEI Annual Report: The company has “[e]stablished two external DE&I based talent partnerships to further our diversity recruitment efforts” while creaiting a “[p]ipeline of diverse candidates of leadership talent, so that teams at all levels are more broadly reflective of our employees and the larger communities in which we work and serve” while also creating a “Diverse Business Inclusion (DBI) program [to] leverage the company’s collective purchasing power to provide more opportunities for businesses owned by women, minorities, and veterans” (4). CoreCivic does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (5).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

CoreCivic supports DEI within its business practices, integrating DEI into its policies, onboarding, learning, and leadership programs (1). CoreCivic supports DEI within its business practices, hosting a DEI Committee and Council (2). CoreCivic conducted a racial equity audit report (3)(4). CoreCivic supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2021 ESG Report: “We incorporate ESG into our overall corporate strategy and continue to develop ESG-specific governance for certain topics covered in this report” (5).