Business Career
DeConcini managed Shopping Centers, Inc. in Tucson, Ariz, from 1963–1964 and 1967-1973. He also managed family corporation and partnerships involved in Arizona and California real estate development projects. He has served on the boards of Global Health Science, Inc., Schuff Steel Company, and Greater Arizona Savings Bank.
He has been the center of some controversy in 2010 as a result of his membership the board of the Corrections Corporation of America. Although he claims he has not lobbied for harsher immigration laws and sentencing practices, he admits meetings with the Arizona Department of Corrections Director Chuck Ryan and "publicly speaking in favor of" for-profit prisons.
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