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Mis-Managed Health Care in Texas Prisons

Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998

Filed under: Medical Misconduct, Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Medical Records, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Mis-Managed Health Care in Texas Prisons by In 1993, Texas state prisons over-flowed with 70,000 prisoners. But the state was nearing completion of a $1.5 billion prison construction program that would more than double the number of state prisons. State Comptroller John Sharp appreciated what few Texans knew: the $1.5 …

State Weasel Monitors Private Prison Chicken Coop in Texas

Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998

Filed under: Private Prisons, Bobby Ross Group, Government Misconduct

vendors who want to ply their trade in the state of Texas. One of those vendors, the Bobby Ross Group, operates the Dickens County Correctional Center (DCCC) in West Texas. DCCC has been the site ...

Physical Injury Limit Defined, Wrongly

Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998

Filed under: Private Prisons, Bobby Ross Group, Eighth Amendment, Physical Injury Rule, Informants (Failure to Protect)

(e). Thinh Minh Luong is a Hawaii state prisoner transferred to the Dickens County Corrections Center, a private prison operated by the Bobby Ross Group in Texas. Luong is an admitted long time ...

DOJ to Probe Texas Rent-A-Jail

Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Private Prisons, Bobby Ross Group, Prison Rebellion, Escapes, Failure to Protect (General), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Shootings

announced that it planned to investigate the Dickens County Correctional Center (DCCC). The facility is operated by the Bobby Ross Group, based in Austin, Texas. It is one of many small "Rent-a-Jails ...

Oklahoma Pulls Out of TX Rent-A-Jail

Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Private Prisons, Capital Correctional Resources Inc, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas

of a conflict over the use of pepper spray on "unruly inmates." Limestone County, Texas, contracts with a private firm, Capital Correctional Resources, Inc. (CCRI), to operate its rent-a-jail. The approximately ...

'Training Video' Reveals Beatings in Texas Rent-A-Jail

Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Private Prisons, Capital Correctional Resources Inc, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Dogs

Missouri prisoners being kicked and beaten during a "shake down" at a Texas Rent-A-Jail. The state of Missouri announced that it was terminating its $6 million contract Capital Correctional Resources, Inc ...

Texas Rent-A-Cells Burn

Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996

Filed under: Private Prisons, Financing, Prison Rebellion

worked with Dominion [the very idea of a prisoner-broker boggles the imagination!!] to put warm Utah and Missouri bodies in the jail, and have found another private contractor, Dove Development Corp ...

More Trouble in Texas Rent-A-Jails

Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996

Filed under: Private Prisons, Prison Rebellion, Escapes

More Trouble in Texas Rent-A-Jails by Bryon W, Ferguson by Bryon W. Ferguson Hawaii prisoner Larry Earl Pagan decided he'd had enough of Texas hospitality. Pagan, shanghaied from a Hawaii state prison [See: "Kidnapping and Extortion Texas Style" in the Feb '96 PLN], escaped in February from the Newton County …

Kidnapping and Extortion, Texas Style

Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Private Prisons, Overcrowding

, such as Drexel Burnham Lambert, offered to underwrite the development schemes by selling high-yield "junk munis" to finance construction. The "market" looked solid. In a 1989 press release, N-Group Securities ...

US Marshals Liable for Beating

Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Conditions of Confinement, Failure to Protect (General), Federal Tort Claims Act, Contractor Liability

US Marshals Liable for Beating by Fred Sandoval is a federal prisoner. While being transported to a court hearing the Marshals Service placed him in a private jail run by the Wackenhut corporation, contracted to the US government. A Wackenhut guard antagonized another prisoner who, thinking Sandoval was the culprit, …

Prison Legal News vs. Corrections Corporation of America, Final Judgment, Sept. 2014

Filing

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Attorney Fee Awards, Public Records

Prison Legal News vs. Corrections Corporation of America, Final Judgment, Sept. 2014

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