{"schema_version":"secwatch.filing_event.v1","accession":"0001193125-26-402817","form_type":"8-K","ticker":"CXW","cik":"0001070985","company_name":"CoreCivic, Inc.","filed_at":"2026-09-25T20:05:15+00:00","discovered_at":"2026-09-25T20:07:12.042215+00:00","generated_at":"2026-10-12T13:21:39.638072+00:00","sec_items":["5.02","7.01","9.01"],"event_type":"leadership","sentiment":"neutral","materiality_score":0.7,"calibrated_materiality_score":0.7,"confidence":"high","headline":"CoreCivic CEO Patrick Swindle resigns for health reasons; Lucibeth Mayberry named President and CEO","bullets":["Swindle stepped down as President and CEO and resigned from the board effective Sept 24, 2026, citing stage four metastatic pancreatic cancer; he had been CEO since Jan 1, 2026.","Lucibeth Mayberry, EVP and Chief Strategy Officer since May 2025, named President and CEO and appointed to the board effective Sept 24, 2026; base salary set at $900,000.","Mayberry's short-term incentive target is 135% of base salary, prorated for 2026; she receives about $2.5M in RSUs in Q1 2027, 40% time-based and 60% performance-based over three years.","Swindle becomes Special Advisor through Sept 24, 2028, getting $2,293,270 for FY2026 incentive and $8,059,609 for forfeited unvested equity, with salary stepping down to 50% after 12 months.","Mayberry pledged to continue the current capital allocation strategy and operational focus, citing property sales announced earlier this year."],"urls":{"canonical":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-402817","json":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-402817.json","markdown":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-402817.md","text":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-402817.txt","edgar_index":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1070985/000119312526402817/0001193125-26-402817-index.htm","edgar_primary_document":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1070985/000119312526402817/d255504d8k.htm"},"model":{"generated_by":"deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2","generated_at":"2026-10-12T13:21:39.638072+00:00"},"review":{"review_status":"machine_generated","human_reviewed":false,"corrected":false,"correction_note":null,"correction_timestamp":null,"superseded_by":null,"related_filings":[]},"source_grounded_claims":[],"license":"Source filings: public domain (SEC EDGAR). Summaries (headline + bullets): CC-BY-4.0; attribute https://secwatch.observer"}