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SEC FORM 4 SEC Form 4
FORM 4 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 		 
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
HORNE JOHN R
(Last) (First) (Middle)
4201 WINFIELD ROAD
(Street)
WARRENVILLE IL 60555
(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
CORRECTIONS CORP OF AMERICA [ CXW ] 		5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
X Director 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
12/30/2005
4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
 6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) 2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price
CXW Common Stock 12/30/2005 A 126(1) A $44.525 6,608 D
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) 8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) 10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Explanation of Responses:
1. Represents shares acquired under the Company's Non-Employee Director's Compensation Plan.
Remarks:
Todd Mullenger 01/04/2006
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
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 LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR
SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS




	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned's hereby makes,

constitutes and appoints John D. Ferguson, G.A. Puryear, IV, Todd
Mullenger
and Albert Bart, Esq. as the undersigned's true and lawful

attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority as hereinafter described
on
behalf of and in the name, place and stead of the undersigned to:



(1)	prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file Forms 3, 4, and 5

(including any amendments thereto) with respect to the securities of

Corrections Corporation of America, a Maryland corporation (the
"Company"),
with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission,
any national
securities exchanges and the Company, as considered
necessary or advisable
under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 and the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended
from time to time (the
"Exchange Act");

(2)	seek or obtain, as the
undersigned's
representative and on the undersigned's behalf, information
on transactions
in the Company's securities from any third party,
including brokers,
employee benefit plan administrators and trustees, and
the undersigned
hereby authorizes any such person to release any such
information to the
undersigned and approves and ratifies any such release
of information; and


(3)	perform any and all other acts which in
the discretion of such
attorney-in-fact are necessary or desirable for
and on behalf of the
undersigned in connection with the foregoing.


The undersigned
acknowledges that:

(1)	this Power of Attorney
authorizes, but does not
require, such attorney-in-fact to act in their
discretion on information
provided to such attorney-in-fact without
independent verification of such
information;

(2)	any documents
prepared and/or executed by such
attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of
Attorney will be in such form and
will contain such information and
disclosure as such attorney-in-fact, in
his or her discretion, deems
necessary or desirable;

(3)	neither
the Company nor such
attorney-in-fact assumes (i) any liability for the
undersigned's
responsibility to comply with the requirement of the
Exchange Act, (ii) any
liability of the undersigned for any failure to
comply with such
requirements, or (iii) any obligation or liability of
the undersigned for
profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the
Exchange Act; and


(4)	this Power of Attorney does not relieve the
undersigned from
responsibility for compliance with the undersigned's
obligations under the
Exchange Act, including without limitation the
reporting requirements under
Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

	The
undersigned hereby gives and
grants the foregoing attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and
perform all and every act and thing
whatsoever requisite, necessary or
appropriate to be done in and about
the foregoing matters as fully to all
intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if present,
hereby ratifying all that such
attorney-in-fact of, for an on behalf of he
undersigned, shall lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue of this
Limited Power of Attorney.


	This Power of Attorney shall remain in
full force and effect until
revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to such
attorney-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
undersigned has caused
this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this
13th day of December,
2001.





									   /s/
John R. Horne

						Signature



									   John R.
Horne

						Print Name



STATE OF

COUNTY OF





	On this ___________ day of ____________, ______________,

________________ personally appeared before me, and acknowledged that
s/he
executed the foregoing instrument for the purposes therein
contained.


	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
official seal.





_________________________________

						Notary Public





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