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Summary Judgment Granted to a County Sheriff for a Civil Detainees Civil Violation by A California Federal District Court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging violation of a civil detainee’s Fourth Amendment rights. Civil detainee John T. Sundquist was at the Atascadero State Hospital under the …
, Tennessee-based privateprisontransportcompany TransCor America for transporting prisoners more than 24 continuous hours without giving them an opportunity to rest overnight in a bed.
The class action suit
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DC Circuit Reverses CCA/TransCor Non-Exhaustion Dismissal by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC) Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s lawsuit for failure to exhaust administrative remedies and for conceding summary judgment by failing to respond to the defendants’ summary judgment motion. The …
. Extradition.
PLN has previously reported on the abysmal track record of privateprisonertransportcompanies, including a disturbing number of cases involving rape and sexual abuse by transportation guards
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Prisoner Not Allowed to Sue One DOC in Another State by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Illinois held that New Mexico Department of Corrections (NMDOC) officials cannot be sued in Illinois due to lack of personal jurisdiction. Jimmy Kinslow, an NMDOC prisoner, was transferred in 1995 to the …
PA Long-Arm Statute Reaches Out-of-State Civil Rights Violations in TransCor Suit by PA Long-Arm Statute Reaches Out-of-State Civil Rights Violations in TransCor Suit On May 5, 2000, Jerry Irons, an AIDS patient was arrested in Maryland on an Ohio warrant. On May 17, TransCor, a company that transports prisoners, took …
by a private
transportcompany (Transcor) employee under contract with New Hampshire was
unreasonable and violated her right to privacy under the First and
Fourteenth Amendments. Elliott was arrested
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Private Medical TransportCompany Not Liable for Police Actions
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At police direction, a private corporation transported the plaintiff to a
police station, where he collapsed from
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. Transcor America Inc., a privateprisontransportationcompany, was contracted by the state of North Dakota to
transport Bell to a maximum security prison in Oregon. Bell escaped. The
North family alleges
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there also was little regulation of privatizedprisonertransportationcompanies: no regulatory oversight, no standards, no minimum security requirements or enforcement mechanisms to ensure that transport
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Florida Work Release Prisoners Ripped Off by Private TransportCompany
by David Reutter
Florida Work Release Prisoners Ripped Off
by Private TransportCompany
by David M. Reutter
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Michael Jerome Edwards was a driver for TransCor America, a privateprisonertransportcompany owned by Corrections Corporation of America. The victim was arrested in Corpus Christi, Texas
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$9.5 Million Awarded in Prisoner Van Fire Death by $9.5 Million Awarded In Prisoner Van Fire Death In late February 2001, Kathryn Catalano received a $9.5 million jury award in a Tennessee U.S. District Court. She sued after her father died in an extradition van fire. Federal Extradition Agency (FEA) …
Escape Costs Private TransportCompany
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A privateprisonertransportcompany agreed to pay $50,000 to the state of North Dakota to defray the state's expenses for recapturing a prisoner
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Private TransportationCompany Liable Under 42 USC § 1983
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Private TransportationCompany Liable Under 42 USC § 1983
A federal district court in Colorado held that alleged sexual
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crashed near Collyer, Kansas, injuring five prisoners and killing one guard.
Although privateprisonertransportcompanies do not have a monopoly on poor safety records or incompetence, as the market
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Escaped Prisoner Rides into Sunset by Eight federal prisoners being transported in a van operated by Federal Extradition Agency escaped July 30 near Ordway, Colorado. Two guards working for the private transport firm were driving nine prisoners across Colorado when they stopped to drop one prisoner off at the Crowley …
