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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-182677"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CXW"
cik: "0001070985"
company_name: "CoreCivic, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T11:45:32.440970+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger to step down Jan 1, 2026; President Patrick Swindle to succeed

## Summary
- Damon T. Hininger steps down as CEO and from Board effective January 1, 2026, after 16 years as CEO.
- Patrick Swindle, currently President and COO, appointed CEO and Board member effective same date.
- Hininger to serve as Special Advisor to CEO and Chairman through March 31, 2027 under transition agreement.
- Swindle's 2026 compensation: $900k base salary, 132% bonus target, $2.502M equity grant (40% time-based, 60% performance-based).
- Swindle joined CoreCivic in 2007 and has led operations, facility activations, and restructuring.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-182677
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CXW
- cik: 0001070985
- company_name: CoreCivic, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1070985/000119312525182677/0001193125-25-182677-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1070985/000119312525182677/d63509d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-182677.txt

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