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, especially for female prisoners, which extended past the point in 1992 when the sheriff contracted with Prison Health Services (PHS) to provide health care services at the jail. The monitor noted that the most ...
," she said. "They hide behind the private contractor." Venetis is representing 19 detainees in a lawsuit against the INS and former Esmore Correctional Services. Weekly News Update on the Americas ...
Equitable Securities, a finance firm that encourages investment in private prison companies, termed the Ohio situation a "public relations problem." CCA spokeswoman Peggy Lawrence called criticism directed ...
Georgia DOC Turns to Private Prisons by Alex Friedmann According to a report by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, by July 2003 the state will have just 42,000 prison beds ...
videotaped shakedown of Missouri prisoners in the Brazoria County "Rent-A-Jail." The three, Lester Arnold, David Cisneros and Robert Percival, along with former Capital Correctional Resources Inc. (CCRI) guard ...
. Correctional Medical Services (CMS) provides mental health care for Alabama state prisoners. In order to cut costs, in other words to boost profits, CMS initiated a policy to get as many prisoners as possible ...
to a private prison in Oklahoma. According to eye-witnesses, about 155 prisoners refused orders to return to their cells from a recreation area. Emergency response [goon] units were brought ...
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 ...
Jailers Charged in Bribery, Kickback Schemes by Asenior administrator in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and an independent contractor face felony bribery charges involving padded contracts for millions of dollars in jail food. And, in Texas, a McLennan County grand jury indicted a county sheriff's Sgt. on misdemeanor charges …
. George Zoley made it clear that his company didn't plan to follow in CCA's footsteps by pursuing a merger. Eager investors looking to cash in on the profitable private prison industry took him ...
, the 300 detainees chased out the 12 poorly-trained and underpaid guards and proceeded to demolish the hated facility. [See: "INS Detainees Trash Private Prison," PLN Vol. 6, No. 5] Five hours after ...
Sexual History Evidence Limited in Rape Suit by Afederal district court in New Mexico held that private prison officials were limited in what questions they could elicit about a prison ...
Mis-Managed Health Care in Texas Prisons by In 1993, Texas state prisons over-flowed with 70,000 prisoners. But the state was nearing completion of a $1.5 billion prison construction program that would more than double the number of state prisons. State Comptroller John Sharp appreciated what few Texans knew: the $1.5 …
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 ...
investigating crimes committed at the prison. In the wake of the chaos at NOCC, the Ohio legislature has passed a bill that subjects private prisons to state regulation and makes private prison owners liable ...
Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998
vendors who want to ply their trade in the state of Texas. One of those vendors, the Bobby Ross Group, operates the Dickens County Correctional Center (DCCC) in West Texas. DCCC has been the site ...
Pro Se Tips and Tactics: Limiting the Burdens of Pro Se Inmate Litigation by John Midgley Review of Limiting The Burdens Of Pro Se Inmate Litigation: A Technical Assistance Manual For Courts, Correctional Officials, And Attorneys General , by Lynn S. Branham (American Bar Association, 1997). Given all the anti-prisoner …
) practices was unconstitutional. Seven Louisiana state prisoners housed in a private prison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) on contract to the Louisiana DOC, filed suit claiming ...
prison health care; and Correctional Behavioral Solutions of New Jersey, Inc. ("CBS"), a private corporation providing prisoner mental health services under a subcontract with CMS. The prisoners allege ...
(e). Thinh Minh Luong is a Hawaii state prisoner transferred to the Dickens County Corrections Center, a private prison operated by the Bobby Ross Group in Texas. Luong is an admitted long time ...
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