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; Besides providing security services, it also operates privateprisons and immigration detention centers, provides electronic tagging (monitoring) for offenders on community supervision and has a prisoner
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of their dignity, and leaching precious human
capital from already-distressed communities. !
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GEO Group and other privateprisons have a perverse profit motive to drive criminal justice and
immigration policy
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, the nation’s two largest privateprison contractors announced dramatic increases in their first-quarter earnings for the year. The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) reported a 17 percent increase over
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OF BERNALILLO
STATE OF NEW MEXICO
ANDREW TRUJILLO,
Plaintiff,
CAUSE No. D-202-CV-2016-03860
v.
THE GEO GROUP, INC., aka GEO
CORRECTIONS AND DETENTION, LLC.,
AND CORIZON HEALTH, INC.,
CORIZON, LLC, CORIZON INC
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The GEO Group
Management & Training Corp.
CommunityEducationCenters
LaSalle Corrections
Emerald Companies
Medical / Mental Health Care
Corizon Health (Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Co.)
Centurion (Centene
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and Detention Watch Network, both non-profit organizations that oppose prison privatization, reported that over half of ICE detention facilities are operated by privatecontractors. Those privateprison firms
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Advocates Leery of Cell Phones Given to Undocumented Immigrants by Derek Gilna Immigration rights advocates are suspicious of a new government-funded program administered by GEO Care – a division of the GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison companies – that supplies cell phones to low-risk undocumented immigrants. …
ICE Detention Standards Compliance Audit - Bexar County, GEO Central Texas Detention Facility, San Antonio, TX, ICE, 2007 • _rS. .ffice afDetention and Removal Operations Department of Homeland Security 4'25 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20536 u.s. Immigration and Customs Enforcement September 26, 2007 MEMORANDUM FOR: FROM: John P. Torres …
ICE Detention Standards Compliance Audit - GEO Karnes County Correctional Center, Karnes City, TX, ICE, 2009 ICE Detention Startdards . Compliance eVlew , GEO Karnes County Correctional Center April 7-9, 2009 REPORT DATE-April 14,2009 rea t i v corrections Contract Number: ODT-6-D-OOO I Order Number: HSCEOP-07-F-OI016 Executive Vice President Creative …
ICE Detention Standards Compliance Audit - GEO Karnes County Correctional Center, Karnes City, TX, ICE, 2007 a / e (~r.D.etention and Removal Operatiolls .~. Department of Homeland Security 5 I Street, l\'W W'ishington, DC 20536 _k u.s. Immigration and Customs Enforcement April 18, 2007 MEMORANDUM FOR: John P. Torres Director …
Kevlar “pods,” and
operated by ManagementTrainingCorporation at Raymondville,
Texas, under an ICE contract.
June 2006 ICE officials announced that they needed 35,000 new detention beds to hold immigrants
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The Banks That FinancePrivatePrison Companies, In the Public Interest, 2016
The Banks That FinancePrivatePrison Companies
In the Public Interest • November 2016
About the Programs Not Profits
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Jackson v. Xtreme Manufacturing, NM, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2016 Case 1:16-cv-00504 Document 1 Filed 05/31/16 Page 1 of 3 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO ROBERT JACKSON, Plaintiff, V. XTREME MANUFACTURING, d/b/a/ SNORKEL INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS, LLC; THE GEO GROUP, INC., d/b/a/ GUADALUPE COUNTY …
and uniformity. The three GEO facilities all had identical ERP’s which were
well written, but not individualized to the specific facilities. The Management and
TrainingCorporation (MTC) ERP was not written
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Correctional Facility Disturbances 1998-2008, GEO, 2008 Correctional Facility Disturbances Attachments The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) has gathered correctional facility disturbance information for those facilities operated by GEO in the United States since 1998 – meeting the definition of “criminal justice facility”, i.e., a place of total confinement for convicted felons …
to violent crime
Every year, America’s largest privateprison companies – The GEO Group,
Group, Inc.,
Inc. Corrections
Corporation of America (CCA),
(CCA) , and the Management & TrainingCorporation (MTC)—pour
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, INC.,
and CORIZON HEALTH,
Defendants.
COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES UNDER THE NEW MEXICO
TORT CLAIMS ACT AND NEW MEXICO COMMON LAW
Plaintiff Willie Robert Garcia ("Plaintiff''), by and through his attorneys
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Florida’s PrivatePrison Movement Alive and Well
by David Reutter
With the promise of saving taxpayer dollars to house a growing prisoner population during a cyclical crime wave in the early
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