Segment Reporting - Additional Information (Detail)	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024 Property Facility Segment
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of Operating segments \| Segment	3
CoreCivic Safety
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of facilities operated by the company	43
Number of facilities owned by the company	39
CoreCivic Community
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of centers owned and operated by company	23
CoreCivic Properties
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of properties held for lease to government agencies \| Property	6

Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Topic 280
-SubTopic 10
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 18
-Publisher FASB
-URI https://asc.fasb.org//1943274/2147482810/280-10-50-18

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