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Corrections Corp. of America

and Geo Group

, the largest U.S. prison operators with a combined 86% market share, have long been touted as ironclad investments based on two trends: the rising prison population and government outsourcing of penal services.

Providing returns to shareholders can be accomplished in many ways. The best way is through a company reinvesting cash flows to increase the revenue and profits of the business, lifting the intrinsic value of common stock.

It takes a special kind of narcissist to want to be Gordon Gekko, but a stable of criminal misanthropes to inspire the Wall Street character's existence. Friday's release of that film's 23-years-overdue sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, reacquaints America with Gekko, one of its most famous modern caricatures -- the archetypal cutthroat corporate raider and embodiment of 1980s excess.

Timeline of Blockbuster's (

) fairytale that did not have a happy ending.