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Abuse of Prisoners Confirmed at CCA Facility

Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Failure to Protect (General), Stun Guns/Tasers

. "We've been warning all along that Wisconsin prisoners would be abused in private prisons," Rost says. "The CCA has a terrible record on human rights and the professionalism of its staff." Rost says ...

Tennessee Prison Privatization Bill Fails to Pass

Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Financing, State Legislation

systems -- and the Tennessee scenario provides valuable insight into how advances by private prison companies can be successfully challenged. In April 1997 Tennessee Rep. Matt Kisber announced ...

PLN Writer Exiled by CCA

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

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Retaliation for Media Contact, Retaliatory Transfers, Access to Media, Censorship

was also interviewed by Eric Bates, who quoted Alex in the article "Private Prisons" [ The Nation , January 5, 1998]. Initially, CCA/South Central employees refused to allow copies of The Nation article ...

Union Reverses Position on Private Prisons

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

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Guard Unions

Union Reverses Position on Private Prisons by Last May, when a bill was introduced in the Tennessee legislature to privatize the state's entire corrections system, the private prison ...

U.S. Supreme Court: No Immunity for Private Prisons

Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Restraints, Qualified Immunity, Contractor Liability

U.S. Supreme Court: No Immunity for Private Prisons by Paul Wright The U.S. supreme court, in a five to four ruling, held that employees of privately owned and operated prisons ...

Jail Assault Requires Trial

Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Failure to Protect (General), Eighth Amendment, Civil Procedure, State Law Claims

Jail Assault Requires Trial by The court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that whether a prisoner's question to a guard about what would happen if he assaulted another prisoner, required a trial to determine if the guard was liable when the questioner then assaulted another prisoner. William Street …

Prisoners Roasted Alive

Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997

Filed under: Transport Companies, Skin, Wrongful Death, Accidents

." Dover said the heat from the fire was so intense that it welded the van's back door shut. Another employee of the private transport company, who was riding shotgun, escaped without injuries ...

No Qualified Immunity for Private Prisons; Supreme Court Grants Review

Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Injury -- Misc., Restraints, Qualified Immunity, Contractor Liability

No Qualified Immunity for Private Prisons; Supreme Court Grants Review by The court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that guards employed by private, for profit prisons are not entitled ...

NC Prisoners Riot in Tennessee

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

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Rebellion

NC Prisoners Riot in Tennessee by On October 28, 1995, more than 100 North Carolina prisoners at the Corrections Corporation of America owned private prison in Mason, TN rioted, demanding ...

The Prison Privatization Debate

Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Labor, OB/GYN, Prisoners-International, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

." It is from within this context that we examine the privatization question. It should be clear from the foregoing that privatizing prisons would in no way diminish the fundamental nature of these institutions ...

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