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Sep 28, 2012, 6:30 am EDT | By Dan Burrows, InvestorPlace Feature Writer

Corrections Corporation of America

Corrections Corporation of America (NYSE:CXW) is another distasteful enterprise that has done very well by investors.

The nation’s biggest publicly traded operator of prisons has generated a total return of more than 600% over the last decade — thanks largely to a combination of cash-strapped states and the U.S. having the largest prison population in the world.