Corrections Corporation of America.

Corrections Corporation of America recently announced the hiring of Dean Adelman as its new vice president of human resources. Adelman's responsibilities will encompass the continued refining and expanding of a human resource department that manages the hiring, training, salary and benefits of the company's more than 13,000 corrections professionals nationwide. "We hope to leverage Dean's legal training and present-day expertise in human resources management to help us enhance our employee professional development and training programs and our employee retention programs across the company's corrections system," said Jim Seaton, chief operating officer of CCA. Adelman earned his law degree from the University of Georgia Law School and his bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia. For the past four years, Adelman has served as vice president of human resources for RTM Restaurant Group in Atlanta. RTM is the largest franchise of Arby's restaurants with more than 20,000 employees in 38 states. Previously, he served seven years as senior counsel of employment/ human resources for Georgia-Pacific Corp. For more information, contact Louise Green at [phone].