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health care system.” [See: PLN, June 2014, p.44]. To meet his obligations under the consent decree, Gusman entered into a five-year, $83 million contract with Nashville, Tennessee-based CorrectCare
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the surface of the controversial privateprison industry by viewing it from the outside. Prisons both public and private are notorious for their lack of transparency, typically justified in the name of &ldquo
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Ill. DEFENDANTS
4. Defendant, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is a privateprison contractor of the
Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. It is legally responsible
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LaSalle Corrections: A Family-Run Prison Firm
by Matthew Clarke
by Matt Clarke
Unique circumstances have combined to make northern Louisiana a prime location for privateprisons
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Correctional Facility in Winnfield, Louisiana--a CCA-run privateprison--when he was twice sexually assaulted by Charlie Roberts, a CCA employee. Following the first sexual assault, which occurred while Roberts
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CCA Prisoner Awarded $3,250 in Excessive Force Lawsuit by A Louisiana U.S. District Court awarded $3,250 to a prisoner in a civil rights action that involved excessive use of force by a guard. The lawsuit was filed by Winn Correctional Center prisoner Derrick Levon Carter due to events that occurred …
Louisiana Correctional Center (SLCC) in Basil, a privateprison operated by LCS Corrections Services, Inc. (LCS). One of those train cars, owned by Union Tank Car Company (UTC) and leased to Dow Chemical
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that a copy of this Motion was filed electronically with the Clerk
of Court and all counsel of record, using the CM/ECF system.
Furthermore I certify that on this date I have sent
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Louisiana PrivatePrison Warden Arrested for Malfeasance
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Leroy Holiday, Sr., 55, a regional warden for LaSalleManagementCompany, LLC (LMC), a privateprison firm, was released on $5,000
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and Jacqueline Overturf, were being held at the Brush Correctional Facility, a privateprison operated by GRWCorp., when they were sexually assaulted by prison guard Russell E. Rollison. They filed a lawsuit
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Defunct Louisiana Juvenile PrivatePrison Reactivated by GEO for Immigrants
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A Jena, Louisiana privateprison with a troubled past will experience rebirth as an immigrant detention center
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Fired Guard Eligible for Unemployment Benefits by A Louisiana appeals court upheld unemployment benefits for a fired Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) guard. While working at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana, the guard witnessed another guard speaking offensively to a black prisoner. The observing guard wrote a letter addressing …
Louisiana's 2002 Exhaustion Requirement (Act 89) Not Retroactive by The Louisiana Supreme Court held that retroactive application of a 2002 law, requiring exhaustion of administrative remedies by prisoners before bringing a state tort action, would unconstitutionally deprive prisoners of a vested right. Therefore, the court held that the law has …
of people in prison or on probation and parole? How many people are employed in the prison industry? How much money is spent on police, prisons and courts? How many prisoners are in privateprisons
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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 …
Louisiana Abandons Private Juvenile Prisons by The state of Louisiana agreed to a settlement in federal court September 7, 2000 designed to radically alter the way it operates its juvenile prisons. The agreement was intended to settle several lawsuits against the state, including one by the U.S. Dept. of Justice, …
Tide Turns Against Prison Privatization
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North Carolina, Georgia, Utah and Louisiana are among states that experimented with privateprisons and because of problems encountered have
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is not the only one taking action. On March 31, 2000, the Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit against the Jena Juvenile Justice Center. It is the first time the DOJ has sued a privateprison company
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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 …
