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but industry observers wonder who would buy it. Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the Nashvillebased privateprison operator, is a candidate buyer but most Wall Street analysts believe CCA already has
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News in Brief by Roger Hummel Alaska: On April 11, 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the head prosecutor in the state attorney general's office, resigned after being judicially admonished for pursuing felony charges against a public defender who crashed his car into a light pole. Anchorage prosecutors had agreed to a misdemeanor …
of prisoners, many states turned to privateprison companies like Wackenhut Corrections, Corrections Corporation of America, and CornellCorrections. But the prison-building boom of the 1990s has now evolved
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Wackenhut Wracked by Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ronald Young Wackenhut Wracked By Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ron Young After a decade as a leading operator of corporate-owned prisons, Wackenhut Corrections has become a prisoner of its own problems. In New Mexico, a 500-page legislative report written by five consultants calls …
PrisonHealthServices Refuses to Pay
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The U.S. court of appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a forum selection clause in an indemnity agreement between the Sheriff of Polk Co
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CSC Cancels Florida Juvenile Facility Contract
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CorrectionalServicesCorp. (CSC) announced Aug. 23, 1999 that it was withdrawing from an $8.7 million-a-year contract to operate
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Corp., has long been criticized for his close connections with the privateprison companies he researches [see: "University professor shills for privateprison industry," PLN, Feb. 1999].
On April 19
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Juveniles Held Hostage for Profit by CSC in Florida by Alex Friedmann According to a consultant hired by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, the Pahokee Youth Development Center (Juvenile prison) operated by the Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) kept ten juvenile detainees beyond their release dates for no other reason …
University Professor Shills for PrivatePrison Industry
by Alex Friedmann
Much of the statistical and academic information regarding prison privatization that is reported in the media
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Plains Youth Center in Brush, Colorado, a 180-bed facility operated by Denver-based Rebound, Inc., was closed by state officials last April following an investigation that revealed abuse and mismanagement
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Medical Services (CMS), which had a contract to provide medical services to the jail.
Sheriff Ergle cancelled the CMS contract on January 1, 1997, and began hiring his own medical staff, including Hathorn
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, especially for female prisoners, which extended past the point in 1992 when the sheriff contracted with PrisonHealthServices (PHS) to provide health care services at the jail. The monitor noted that the most
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of the jail's initial screening process the jail psychologist, Jeff Schultz, an employee of Correctional Medical Service (CMS), a private corporation under contract to the county sheriff, placed Douglas
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second to Texas in the amount of prison beds operated by privatecontractors, and most of the privateprison activity in Florida is located in the middle federal district. See Blumel v. Mylander , 954
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Managed Care Infects PrisonHealthServices
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by Adrian Lomax
In September, 1996, Melody Bird complained to guards at Florida's Pinellas County Jail that she was experiencing severe chest
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equipment, prison officials point out that they don't turn down equipment that happens to be donated, or "surplus equipment" from other state prisons.
Florida's privateprisons don't have to be so coy
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Florida PrivatePrison Criticized
by Dan Pens
by Glenn Wright and Dan Pens
Louisville, Kentucky based privateprison vendor U.S. Corrections Corporation (USCC) was sharply criticized
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PrivatePrison Liable for Wrongful Imprisonment
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A federal district court in Florida held that a private corporation which ran a county jail under contract was liable for a detainee's
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days later as a result of his injuries.
Loretta Cherry, Cherry's wife, filed suit against jail officials and PrisonHealthServices (PHS), a Delaware corporation which was contracted to provide medical
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