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CCA Agrees to Pay $1.3 Million to Settle Sexual Harassment, Retaliation Suit by On October 1, 2009, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) entered into a consent decree with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to settle allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation involving female employees at the company’s Crowley County …
had breached a contract with MedicalDevelopmentInternational (MDI), a Florida-based company that provided medical services at two CDCR prisons but did not get paid for much of its work.
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to CACI was reversed. The plaintiffs' remaining claims were dismissed.
See: Saleh v. TitanCorp., D.C. Circuit, Case No. 08-7008 (consolidated with Case No. 08-7009).
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Judge Recommends Denial of Suppression Motion Related to Recordings Obtained from CCA by U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert E. Larsen has recommended the denial of a motion to suppress phone recordings of a plot to harm a federal witness obtained by the government through a Rule 17 subpoena without a court …
Rendon v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2010 Case: 1:10-cv-01590 Document #: 44 Filed: 04/30/10 Page 1 of 32 PageID #:191 09-17 KJG: car UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JANET RENDON, Independent Administrator ) of the Estate of CAROL CZUBERNAT ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) …
Schoger v. Obaisi, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2010 Case: 1:10-cv-02659 Document #: 1 Filed: 04/29/10 Page 1 of 18 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION MARK SCHOGER, Plaintiff, vs. No. ________________ SALEH OBAISI, MD and WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., Defendants. …
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In at least one case, Aramark is the dissatisfied contract partner. The company filed suit against CommunityEducationCenters (CEC) in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania on February
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on to CorrectionalHealthServices, and six months later the contract was assigned to Correctional Medical Services (CMS). Vermont dumped CMS on January 31, 2005 after a series of problems, including seven in-prison
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Oklahoma Courts Collecting Fines, Costs at Expense of Justice by Oklahoma judges are pushing for larger fines imposed on criminal defendants to compensate for a shortfall in courthouse budgets. The downturn in the economy has affected almost everyone, and the courts are no exception. Judges in Oklahoma have seen a …
in Texas and totaling 1,018 beds, went to competitor Management and TrainingCorporation. And on October 9, 2008, after CCA terminated its contract to operate the 1,150-bed Bay County Jail in Panama City
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Ninth Circuit: 42 U.S.C. § 233(a) Does Not Immunize Public Health Service Employees from Bivens Constitutional Tort Claims by John Dannenberg Ninth Circuit: 42 U.S.C. § 233(a) Does Not Immunize Public Health Service Employees from Bivens Constitutional Tort Claims by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals …
Crisis in Reverse: Counties Struggle with Dwindling Jail Populations by Gary Hunter Morgan County, Missouri was in dire financial straits before contracting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house immigration detainees at the county’s jail. For a while things were great – Sheriff Jim Petty replaced his worn-out …
Florida Jail Prisoner Paralyzed by MRSA Sues PrisonHealthServices
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When Brett A. Fields entered Florida’s Lee County Jail to be booked on charges of criminal mischief, violating
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Guards Suspended, Fired in Prostitution Probe at CCA-Run D.C. Jail by In June 2009, a District of Columbia jail sergeant and two lieutenants were placed on paid leave during an investigation into allegations that the sergeant paid a pimp to have sex with a jailed prostitute. One of the lieutenants …
Indian Country Gets Stimulus Money ... to Build More Jails by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Department of Justice, through the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, has brought stimulus money to Indian reservations – awarding $224 million to build and renovate tribal jails. The funding …
Glover v. CCA, VT, Release and Settlement, 2010 LAN CROCK SPERRY & WOOL, LLP MIDDLEBURY BURLINGTON ATTORNEYS AT LAW Peter F. Langrock Ellen Mercer Fallon William B. Miller, Jr. James W. Swift Emily J. Joselson Mitchell L. Pearl Kevin E. Brown Frank H. Langrock Beth Robinson. F. Rendol Barlow Devin …
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PLN has previously reported on the abysmal track record of privateprisonertransportcompanies, including a disturbing number of cases involving rape and sexual abuse by transportation guards
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of an Idaho state prisoner who was driven to suicide by squalid conditions at a GEO Group-run privateprison in Texas, where he had been transferred. The IDOC agreed to pay the prisoner’s estate $100,000
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the defendant: PrisonHealthServices/Dr. Robbins $80,000; MHM Correctional Services/Dr. McGinn $370,000; former KCF Warden Arnold Holt $300,000. The estate was represented by Southern Center for Human Rights
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Shrinking Budgets Force States to Cut Corrections Spending by Bob Williams In a July 2009 report funded by the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States, author Christine S. Scott-Hayward examines how shrinking budgets are impacting state corrections policies and practices. The story is in the …
