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Wisconsin “Boondoggled” Into Buying Broken Down New Private Prison

Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007

Filed under: Private Prisons, Financing, Dominion Group, Contractor Misconduct, State Legislation

Wisconsin “Boondoggled” Into Buying Broken Down New Private Prison by Wisconsin "Boondoggled" Into Buying Broken Down New Private Prison After buying a private prison for $87.1 million ...

Fair Labor Standards Acts Minimum Wage Provision Not Applicable to Private Prisons

Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Industries, Prison Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act

Fair Labor Standards Acts Minimum Wage Provision Not Applicable to Private Prisons by Fair Labor Standards Acts Minimum Wage Provision Not Applicable to Private Prisons The Seventh Circuit ...

Another Death in a Wisconsin Prison

Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Cardiovascular, Staffing, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

contract with Prison Health Services (PHS), a private vendor which supplies its own doctors and nurses. Late in 2002 PHS decided to "opt out of their contract" because they were not making enough money ...

CCA Closes Oklahoma Prison, Settles Tax Lawsuit Over Ohio Prison

Article • March 15, 2004 • from PLN March, 2004

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Financing, Prison Rebellion, Staffing, Money/Property, Tax Law, Telephone Rates

as a recession proof industry and rural welfare program for poor whites. But prisons can be a double edged sword, sometimes causing more problems than they solve. Private prisons can be especially duplicitous ...

No Right to Renounce Citizenship - U.S. Not "at War"

Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Habeas Corpus, Immigration

No Right to Renounce Citizenship - U.S. Not "at War" by No Right to Renounce Citizenship - U.S. Not "at War" Judge Bernice B. Donald of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee has denied habeas corpus relief to a Wisconsin prisoner seeking to renounce his …

Wisconsin Medical Care Substandard, Even for Prisoners

Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Medication, Systemic Medical Neglect, Respiratory, Dental Care, Appendicitis, Hepatitis, Staffing, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), State Legislation

of organization makes resource and cost control increasingly difficult. [See cover story.] In an independent investigation, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel documented a variety of questionable prison health ...

Riot at CCA Prison Hospitalizes 15 Guards

Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Rebellion, Guards/Staff, Assaults on Staff

that prison response teams used tear gas to bring the situation under control. The North Fork facility is a private prison ooperated by Corrections Corporation of America. Susan Hart, spokeswoman for CCA ...

Wisconsin Prisoners Rebel at Private Tennessee Prison

Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Rebellion, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Guards/Staff, Assaults on Staff

15 minutes before this thing went down," he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "If something was going to happen that was planned, what better time to do it than then? I think it was spontaneous ...

Habeas Challenging Transfer to Private Prison Dismissed

Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Habeas Corpus

Habeas Challenging Transfer to Private Prison Dismissed by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that habeas corpus was not the proper means to challenge a state statute allowing ...

Wisconsin Prisoners Stage Food Protest

Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Hunger Strikes, Food

Wisconsin Prisoners Stage Food Protest by On January 18 and 19, 1999, Wisconsin prisoners housed at a private prison in Sayre, Oklahoma, refused to show up at the prison's chow hall ...

Wisconsin Resists Out-of-State Transfers

Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Rebellion, Overcrowding

themselves oppose the transfers because they don't like being separated from their loved ones and because the conditions in private prisons are often far worse than those in the public institutions. In March ...

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 ...

Wisconsin Transfers Spark Protest

Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998

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

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 ...

Do the Math

Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Private Prisons

Do the Math by E.D. I read an article in the Wisconsin State Journal about Wisconsin sending prisoners to Texas. There are going to be 700 prisoners shipped there (40 per week, which will take 17.5 weeks) at a cost of $39.36 per day for their housing once they are …

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