ACLU to CCA: We need to talk. In public.

The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging Corrections Corp. of America CEO Damon Hininger to a debate about the merits of private prison management. Because that would be the best way to rebut CCA's criticisms of the group.

“We believe that the taxpayers who finance private prisons; the families whose mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters are incarcerated in these facilities; and the communities where for-profit prisons are situated deserve more than sound bites,” the ACLU’s letter to Hininger reads. “They deserve a full, fair, and public examination of for profit incarceration.”

Our advice: Don't look for an invitation to land in the mail anytime soon.