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is the United States' largest operator or privatizedprisons and jails. The Nashville-based company was founded in 1983 by Doctor Crants and Thomas Beasley, former chair of the Tennessee Republican party. CCA
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PHS Pays $350,000 to Settle Claim for Over-Medication Death of Florida Jail Prisoner
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PrisonHealthServices (PHS) has, once again, entered into a pretrial settlement to pay the family
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PrivatePrisons Bilk $13 million From Florida; State Awards More Contracts
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
Florida's Correctional Privatization Commission (CPC) consistently failed
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. In a related transaction, CSC CEO James Slattery agreed to buy back the company's juvenile services division, YouthServicesInternational (YSI), for $3.75 million and will continue to operate YSI's 17 juvenile
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Beach, Florida, demanding access to public records held by the company.
The Geo Group is a for-profit company that operates privatizedprisons, including two Florida prisons, and its contract-based fees
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Florida Awards Contracts Putting Sex Offenders on GPS Supervision; Other States to Follow by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has awarded three contracts for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite monitoring of sex offenders. The contracts come on the heels on legislation that allocated $3.9 million over a three-year period …
Guards employed by privatecontractors that operate Florida juvenile
justice programs earn some of the lowest wages in the nation. The result
is high turnover, which causes untrained and unqualified
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headquarters in order to more closely monitor
its interests.
Since its inception, Wackenhut Corrections has become one of the three
largest privateprison contractors in the nation, with 49 prisons in 13
states
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expanded, the privatization of prisons has increased. The pages of PLN have chronicled the mental and physical abuse, as well as medical neglect, suffered by those warehoused in privatizedprisons
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Prisons, Profits and Prophets
by Bill Berkowitz
The nation's largest privateprison corporation is joining forces with conservative faith-based ministries
by Bill Berkowitz
In an era
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Class Action Challenges Treatment of Florida's "Sexual Predator" Civil Detainees by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal class action has been filed in the Federal District Court in Ft. Myers by eight residents of the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC), seeking to enforce their rights to mental health …
Florida Work Release Prisoners Ripped Off by Private TransportCompany
by David Reutter
Florida Work Release Prisoners Ripped Off
by Private TransportCompany
by David M. Reutter
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an emergency $65 million to build new prison beds. That proposal included a provision to set aside $75,000 to allow the Correctional Privatization Commission, Florida's privateprison oversight group, to take
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Permanent Injunction Requires Full HCV Retreatment for Florida Prisoner by John E Dannenberg Permanent Injunction Requires Full HCV Retreatment for Florida Prisoner by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court (S.D. Fla.) is-sued a permanent injunction on July 24, 2003 ordering James Crosby, the Secretary of the Florida Department of …
PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues
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by John E. Dannenberg
PrisonHealthServices (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service Group, Inc
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CorrectionalPhysicianServices (CPS), who provided medical care to jail prisoners, and NewHorizons of the TreasureCoast, Inc., who was a subcontractor to provide mental health services to prisoners. Prisoner
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Director of Florida's PrivatePrison Commisssion Resigns, Fined $10,000 for Ethics Violations
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Agreeing to pay $10,000 for ethics violations, the director of Florida's agency overseeing
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in the parents' suit were the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Polk County Sheriff Lawrence Crow, and EMSA Correctional Care Inc., which had contracted to provide physical and mental health care services
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into a five-year contract with Philadelphia's cost-conscious Aramark Corporation to feed prisoners at 126 of the 133 prisons in Florida. The contract is projected to reduce FDOC's cost of feeding its prisoners
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Florida Prisoner Dies in CCA Jail by Lonnie Burton On February 26, 2002, the family of a prisoner who died as a result of medical neglect at the privately-run Bay County jail in Florida filed formal notice that they intend to sue the jail, as well as the Bay Medical …
