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                                                                    Exhibit 99.1




                    CONSENT TO BE NAMED AS A FUTURE DIRECTOR

         Pursuant to Rule 438 under the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned
hereby consents to be named in a Registration Statement on Form S-3 to be filed
by Corrections Corporation of America as a person who will be nominated as a
director of Corrections Corporation of America at the annual meeting of
stockholders on May 14, 1996.

                                                      /s/ R. Clayton McWhorter
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                                                      R. Clayton McWhorter