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to reduce costs. The out-of-state transfers would save money because privateprison companies typically charge less to house prisoners with their non-union work force.
In New Hampshire, the governor’s
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accused of defrauding privateprison operator CornellCorrections of California, Inc. out of $13 million in a prison construction scam.
A federal grand jury handed down indictments that included 20 counts
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PrivatePrison Companies Not Forthcoming About Immigration Detainee Deaths
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PrivatePrison Companies Not Forthcoming About Immigration Detainee Deaths
by Matt Clarke
The privateprison
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, was employed as a financial analyst for GEO’s mergers and acquisitions group. It is through these sources that Zachariah learned that GEO was about to acquire CorrectionalServicesCorp., (CSC) a Florida company
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-year lease agreement. In 2005, CCA made a similar proposal to the leaders of Richmond, Virginia.
Even privateprison companies, which can serve as vehicles for back-door prison financing, are themselves
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TASER International’s Stock Shocked By $6.2 Million Damages Award by John Dannenberg TASER International’s Stock Shocked By $6.2 Million Damages Award by John E. Dannenberg The stock of TASER International, Inc. tanked by 11% to $6.13 per share on June 9, 2008 when three days earlier a federal jury in …
Correctional Center in Wayne County, Tennessee, which is operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest privateprison firm. On May 16, 2008 I attended CCA’s annual
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to Alabama.
To create further bed space, a new 400-prisoner communityeducationcenter in Columbiana is being built for non-violent prisoners, plus a new 300-bed women?s facility. The Alabama Department
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Taser Shareholders Accept $20 Million in Security Fraud Action Pending Court Approval by On August 9, 2006, Taser International, Inc. (Taser) proposed $20 million in company stock, cash and insurance proceeds to settle shareholder class action and derivative suits pending in the U.S. District Court for Arizona and derivative suits …
of Columbia. Its donations totaled $184,983.
CorrectionalServicesCorp. (CSC), which was acquired by GEO after the study period, oversaw 8,000 prisoners in six states. CSC ponied up $128,390 in seven states
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Armor's Chief Executive Officer, Doyle H. Moore, had founded PrisonHealthServices (PHS) in 1978. According to a 2005 New York Times article, "Prison Health proved adept at integrating itself with local
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that handles part of Yale University's $12 billion endowment, has sold all of its shares in Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest privateprison operator. Farallon, which controls
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Wisconsin “Boondoggled” Into Buying Broken Down New PrivatePrison
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Wisconsin "Boondoggled" Into Buying Broken Down New PrivatePrison
After buying a privateprison for $87.1 million
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HealthServices (PHS), EMSA and CorrectionalHealthServices all of which have horrendous track records of sacrificing prisoner health and safety in pursuit of larger profits executive compensation
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PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues
by John Dannenberg
by John E. Dannenberg
PrisonHealthServices (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service
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-ownership plan for $13.2 million.
Prior to 1998, when it was purchased by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) for $225 million, USCC ran four privateprisons in Kentucky: Marion County Adjustment Center
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, and South Africa.
James Slattery, CSCs founder, will continue running YouthServicesInternational--which manages 1,300 beds at 17 juvenile prisons--from CSCs home base of Sarasota, Florida. Slattery paid
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Lawyers Bilk Cornell for Millions, San Francisco Jail Scammed
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In an attempt to recoup millions of dollars, privateprison operator Cornell Companies, Inc., has filed lawsuits against
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Avalon Correctional Services Delisted From NASDAQ
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On February 3, 2005, Avalon Correctional Services, Inc., announced that it had filed Form 15 with the Securities and Exchange Commission
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to influence the state to expand its use of privateprisons, in November 2004 the Geo Group had hired former California Finance Director Donna Arduin ten days after she left her top-level job overseeing all
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