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Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury Performance Audit Report, Department of Correction, TN, 2020

Publication • January 1, 2020

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Sexual Harassment, Medical, Injury -- Misc., Mental Health, Suicides

for the inmate population. The department’s medical and mental health contractors, Centurion of Tennessee, LLC and Corizon Health, have been unable to consistently meet contractually required medical and mental ...

Joint letter to investigate conditions at Stewart Detention Center in Georgia

Publication • October 17, 2019

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Conditions of Confinement, Immigration, HRDC Sign on Letters

for three months and started “acting crazy,” and ate his own feces.116 Id. Id. 104 Id. 105 Id. 106 https://projectsouth.org/forced-labor-lawsuit; https://projectsouth.org/private-prison-company-uses-forced ...

Letter to Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce re CoreCivic membership, October 2019

Publication • October 7, 2019

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, HRDC Publications

. To be clear and for full disclosure, I’m opposed to private prisons that incarcerate people for the purpose of generating corporate profit. Having served time at a CoreCivic facility, I have empirical ...

Marc Stern, M.D., M.P.H. - Report to the Court in the Matter of Parsons v. Ryan, et al., 2019

Publication • October 2, 2019

Filed under: Corizon, Medication, Medical Records, Eighth Amendment, Mental Health, Suicides

, or by email) the following: • • Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) Director More than half of the 21 Arizona Department of Corrections Health Services Monitoring Bureau (“Monitoring Bureau”) managerial ...

Letters to PE Firms re Prison Services, U.S. Congress, 2019

Publication • September 30, 2019

Filed under: Private Prisons, Transport Companies, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Correctional Medical Care, Racial Discrimination

"can increase the cost offan1ilies staying in touch by pho11e v.rith loved ones \iVho arc incarcerated by as 1nuch as 40%." 12 Si1nilarly, the correctional medical care i11dustry is experie11cing ...

State of Washington DOC Contract-JPay, Amendment No. 9

Publication • August 1, 2019

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Private Phone Contractors

of Corrections, hereinafter referred to as “Department,” and JPay, Inc., hereinafter referred to as the “Contractor,” for the purpose of amending the above-referenced Contract, heretofore entered into between ...

Congressional Committee on Oversight and Reform - CoreCivic re Detention Contractors, 2019

Publication • July 10, 2019

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Immigration

Congressional Committee on Oversight and Reform - CoreCivic re Detention Contractors, 2019 Responding to Oversight Committee Document Requests 1. In complying with this request, produce all responsive documents that are in your possession, custody, or control, whether held by you or your past or present agents, employees, and representatives acting …

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Wellpath, 2019

Publication • June 28, 2019

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Wellpath, 2019 ~ -~c~J;--:;;2~0~19;;;:--_o=-=o:c--=o-=-s 3=--c3=-----------. . 1 COMMISSIONERS' JOURNAL COOS COUNTY, OREGON Coos County Filing Cover Sheet 06/28/2019 4:05:00 PM · TO: · Coos County Clerk's Office FROM: Sheriff's Office Please file the attached ·document in the selected category indicated in the box …

Office of the Inspector General, Audit of the BOP Contract Awarded to Correct Care Solutions, 2019

Publication • 2019

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions, Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

Office of the Inspector General, Audit of the BOP Contract Awarded to Correct Care Solutions, 2019 Office of the Inspector General U.S. Department of Justice OVERSIGHT ★ INTEGRITY ★ GUIDANCE Audit ...

Sumter County Sheriff, SC, SHP Proposal Response for Inmate Medical Services, 2019

Publication • 2019

Filed under: Private Contractors

flexibility in its program components to help solidify its goal of building a quality program for all involved. SHP has prided itself in being a true partner to SCDC, and we understand changes may be warranted ...

Colleton County, SC, SHP Contract Renewal, 2019 - 2020

Publication • 2019

Filed under: Private Contractors

Colleton County, SC, SHP Contract Renewal, 2019 - 2020 Southern Health Partners Your Parmer h) Aff(),d~ble Inmate Healthcare April 23, 2019 Sheriff Andy Strickland Colleton County Sheriffs Office 394 Mable T. WIiiis Boulevard Walterboro, SC 29488 Re: Health Services Agreement Dear Sheriff Strickland: SHP values the relationship we have with …

Letter to BOP on Accreditation, May 2019

Publication • May 31, 2019

Filed under: Private Prisons, Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

prisons held over 22,000 inmates, approximately 12% of the BOP population. 2 Three private corporations run all of these facilities - GEO Group (GEO), Management and Training Corporation (MTC ...

Letter to CoreCivic, GEO Group, and MTC Re Private Prison Accreditation, May 2019

Publication • May 31, 2019

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Management and Training Corporation, Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

, "Find a Facility," http://www.corecivic.com/facilities; Management and Training Corporation, "U.S. Locations," https://www.mtctrains.com/corrections/. Private prisons have a questionable record ...

Letter to DHS on Accreditation, May 2019

Publication • May 31, 2019

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Management and Training Corporation

detention per day, while the Management and Training Corporation (MTC) holds close to 2,000.5 These companies run over 200 federal, state, and local corrections and detention facilities. 6 1 U.S. Department ...

National Consumer Law Center - Commercialized (In)Justice - Consumer Abuses in the Bail And Corrections Industry, 2019

Publication • March 1, 2019

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), JPay, Inc., Private Contractors, Electronic Monitoring, Release and Reentry, Bail Bonds, Commissary, Telephone Rates, Mental Health, Visiting, Video Visitation, Staff Training

to the private sector, exemplified by the growth of the private prison industry; and (2) the imposition of fines and fees on mostly low-income defendants to fund the criminal legal system. States and local ...

The Company Store and the Literally Captive Market, Raher, 2019

Publication • January 21, 2019

Filed under: Private Prisons, Telephone Rates

Corrections Corp.) has been rightly criticized for over-estimating the political strength of the private prison lobby (in terms of influencing substantive criminal justice policy), while ignoring the dominant ...

AFT Ranking Asset Managers Report - Private Prisons and Investment Part Two, How Private Prison Companies Fuel Mass Incarceration - and How Public Pension Funds are at Risk, 2019

Publication • January 2, 2019

Filed under: Private Prisons, Pensions

, the Milwaukee County Jail in Wisconsin hired a private company, Armor Correctional Health Services, to provide health services at the jail, replacing the unionized registered nurses, members of the Wisconsin ...

State of Washington DOC Contract-JPay, Amendment No. 8

Publication • January 1, 2019

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Private Phone Contractors

, Department of Corrections, hereinafter referred to as Department, and JPay, Inc., hereinafter referred to as the Contractor, for the purpose of amending the above-referenced Contract, heretofore entered ...

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Correct Care Solutions, LLC- 3rd Amendment, 2016

Publication • December 4, 2018

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Correct Care Solutions, LLC- 3rd Amendment, 2016 r-------------~'\ CJ 2018-000935 COMMISSIONERS' JOURNAL COOS COUNTY, OREGON Coos County Filing ...

Private Equity Stakeholder Project: Private Equity-Owned Firms Dominate Prison and Detention Services, Scaled Up Immigration Detention Has Benefitted Contractors, 2018

Publication • December 1, 2018

Filed under: Private Contractors, Money/Property, Pensions, Immigration, Mental Health

. BlueMountain Capital Management 2017 Correct Care Solutions/ Judicial Correctional Services Healthcare/ Probation Provides medical and behavioral health services for nearly 250,000 patients located in local ...

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