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ICE Bans Crayons in Family Detention Center Visiting Area by Prisoners who cause property damage in correctional facilities often receive swift punishment. It was no different for the very young prisoners held in one of the United States’ most controversial detention centers. Housed with their immigrant mothers in the GEO …
Gatlin v. Corizon, NM, Settlement, Sexual Assault, 2017
SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE
This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE ("Agreement") is
entered into by Jason T. Gatlin ("Plaintiff
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Shackled South African Prisoner Beaten by GEO Guards Wins Lawsuit
by Derek Gilna
In May 2016, privateprison firm The GEO Group, which operates the maximum-security Louis Kutama Sinthumule
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;
THE GEO GROUP, INC.; CORIZON HEALTH,
INC.; CORIZON, LLC; DR. MARKE. WALDEN;
DR. LISA STABER; DR. M. TRUJILLO;
MICHELLE PAQUIN; and JOHN/JANE DOE.
Defendants.
Case assigned to Ortiz, Raymond Z.
Jury Trial
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Amended and Restated Facility Operation and Management Agreement
(hereinafter "Addendum") is entered into by anµ between KINNEY COUNTY, TEXAS (hereinafter
"County") arid COMMUNITYEDUCATIONCENTERS, INC
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After-Action Report - Reeves Co Detention Center TX, fBOP, 2009 e Th e iv at ig st ve In Fu nd e Th e iv at ig st ve In Fu nd e Th e iv at ig st ve In Fu nd e Th e iv at ig st …
the Management & TrainingCorporation. (A third MTC prison was recently shut down after prisoners ransacked it in a protest.) Except for a prison largely used to house prisoners from Washington, DC, these 11
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a privateprison contractor in the death of a pretrial detainee at a Texas jail.
Mario Garcia was confined at the Brooks County Detention Center, operated by LCS Corrections Services, Inc. (LCS). He
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Former Warden, Sheriff, Justice of the Peace Charged in Texas Corruption Scandal by Matthew Clarke Elberto Esquiel Bravo, 55, the former warden at the East Hidalgo County Detention Center, was arrested in January 2015 and charged with acting as an accessory after the fact in a conspiracy to bribe Hidalgo …
to eliminate for-profit prisons, despite taking campaign donations from privateprison firms and her husband’s bail-out that saved the privateprison industry in 1999. The stock of privateprison companies
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\VALDEN,
,JOHN DOE/JANE DOE MEDICAL STAFF,
JOHN DOE/JANE DOE CORRECTIONS OFFICERS,
SERGEANT STEVEN CAMPOS,
THE GEO GROUP, INC, AND
CORIZON, INC.,
Defendants.
COMPLAINT FOR MEDICALMALPRACTICE, ASSAULT
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making the employees sick.”
Some of the workplace complaints also note that hazardous mold conditions are making prisoners sick.
Three separate complaints cite the GEO Group, a leading private
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announced on August 29, 2016 that it was conducting a review of privately-operated immigration detention facilities, following a decision by the Department of Justice to phase out federal privateprisons
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of the Inspector General (OIG).
The 86-page report examined data from 14 privateprisons that contract with the BOP; those CAR (Criminal Alien Requirement) facilities hold around 27,000 non-citizen federal prisoners
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Corporations, Colleges and Cities Dump PrivatePrison Stock
by Joe Watson
Opponents of mass incarceration have notched several small but significant victories by successfully pressuring
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Class-action Suit Filed Against GEO Group for Violation of Job Applicants’ Rights by GEO Group and Accurate Background, Inc. have been sued in federal court in New York for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) when conducting criminal background checks on GEO job applicants. The suit, filed on October …
GEO Group Still Invests in Florida Politics by Prison Legal News has long reported on the financial partnership between for-profit prison firm GEO Group and Florida politicians – a “legacy of corruption,” as detailed in PLN’s March 2011 cover story. GEO’s Political Action Committee (PAC) in Florida, where the company …
From the Editor
by Paul Wright
PLN has opposed the privateprison industry since we began publishing in 1990; back then the industry was in its infancy, having started in 1983 in its modern
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GEO Group Fined More Than $100,000 (by OSHA) by Prison profiteer GEO Group was cited by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) in a June 2012 report with six safety and health violations—totaling $104,000 in fines—at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, which the company formerly managed. OSHA said that, …
the Florida-based private-prison company has cut staff at one prison but continues to charge New Mexico's Corrections Department (NMCD) as if it's still employing the same number of staff.
A June 2012 report
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