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already resulted in a jury verdict of $47.5 million – one of the largest prisoner wrongful death awards in the nation. Gregorio de la Rosa, Jr., 33, was incarcerated at a private prison in Willacy County ...
a third potential bidder, Utah-based Management & Training Corporation (MTC). Aside from the $100 million upfront payment being a nonstarter, some lawmakers and state prison officials questioned ...
Detention Center, a 1,500-bed private prison in Laredo owned and operated by the GEO Group, a Florida-based company formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections. The Rio Grande facility opened in October 2008 ...
corruption, nicknamed “Bonusgate.” Perzel, a Republican and former Speaker of the House, had for years been a member of the board of directors of GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest private prison firm ...
Article • July 15, 2010 • from PLN July, 2010
New York Prisoner Beaten, Guards Convicted, GEO Settles Suit for $80,000 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 7, 2009, three private prison guards were convicted of charges involving ...
of prisoners sent to for-profit facili-ties and privatize other aspects of the state’s prison system, was released in April 2010 on the heels of Governor Schwar-zenegger’s comments in favor of private prisons ...
GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections), the nation’s second-largest private prison company. PLN filed the suit in 2005 under Florida’s public records law after GEO failed to produce documents ...
of an Idaho state prisoner who was driven to suicide by squalid conditions at a GEO Group-run private prison in Texas, where he had been transferred. The IDOC agreed to pay the prisoner’s estate $100,000 ...
GEO Group Buys Just Care For $40 Million by Geo Group, Inc., one of the country’s largest private prison and detention operators, has agreed to acquire Just Care. Just Care operates a 354 ...
Brief • March 1, 2010
Allison v. GEO Group, PA, Settlement Agreement, strip search, 2010 Case 2:08-cv-00467-JD Document 60-3 Filed 03/01/10 Page 1 of 22 EXHIBITS TO MEMORANDUM OF LAW 1. Settlement Agreement, with following attached Exhibits: A. Proposed Claim Form B. Proposed Class Notice: Summary Notice (for mailing and posting), Longer Mailed Notice C. …
company. It was so cruel, and he died sick and afraid.” Physicians Network Association (PNA) of Lubbock, Texas was contracted to provide medical services at RCDC, at a cost of $6.03 per detainee per day ...
prison commissaries), Wexford Health Sources, Correctional Medical Services and Prison Health Services. Several private prison officials stopped by the PCI booth, which was manned by Friedmann and PCI ...
included $1.5 million for private prison beds, $2.5 million for DOC employee severance pay, $1.4 million in annual “mothball” maintenance and $3 million due to the loss of the prison farm. Further ...
Florida’s Private Prisons Still Lack Meaningful Oversight by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) has issued ...
OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION: ) ~ ITEM DHS, ICE Burlington Finance Center P.O. Box 1620 Attn: ICE-DRO-FHQ-CED Williston VT 05495-1620 ICE Detention & Removal Immigration and Customs ...
as a consultant for Management and Training Corporation (MTC), CorPlan Corrections, Aguirre Inc., Hale Mills Corporation, TEDSI Infrastructure Group Inc. and Dannenbaum Engineering Corp., all of which are involved ...
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright Our cover story this month examines the travails of Geo Corporation, the second largest private prison company in the world in the state of Texas. We recently ...
General’s office. Rep. Oliveira sits on the House Corrections Committee, which considers legislation that affects private prison companies. “Oliveira should have been conducting investigations ...
., 2008 WL 3285764, *3 (S.D. Ga. Aug. 8, 2008)(holding that even though the private prison contractor CCA had contracted with the federal Bureau of Prisons to operate a federal correctional ...
of this allows the Obama administration to appear tough on criminal aliens. Private prison companies are happy to help. Bush's focus on identifying criminal aliens created a demand for bed space from ICE, which ...
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