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On Sale Now: Prison Labor
by Sytonia Reid
by Sytonia Reid, Green American Magazine
Every day, incarcerated and detained people in both US government and privateprisons perform labor during
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– according to Pablo Paez, a spokesman for the GEO Group, a privateprison firm. “The ICE Processing Centers operated by our company are very different than local jails and prison facilities
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privateprison companies,
CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA) and GEO Group, are
actively pushing governments to consider the use of private financing to build new facilities
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Martinez v. The Geo Group, CA, Complaint, Constitutional Rights Violations for Refugees, 2018 Case 5:18-cv-01125-R-GJS Document 1 Filed 05/25/18 Page 1 of 26 Page ID #:1 1 2 3 4 5 Rachel Steinback, SBN 310700 LAW OFFICE OF RACHEL STEINBACK P.O. Box 291253 Los Angeles, CA 90029 (t) 213-537-5370 (f) …
profits for privateprison companies. The 2016 budget for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) included $3.3 billion to detain immigrants plus $350 million to add more “family&rdquo
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, accommodations for disabled prisoners and serious safety problems – were back in court in September 2017 to monitor compliance with the settlement agreement.
CaliforniaForensicsMedicalGroup (CFMG
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OFFICER JEFF ANDRADE;
·WILLITS POLICE OFFICER KEVIN LEEF;
·CALIFORNIAFORENSICMEDICALGROUP,
·INCORPORATED, a California corporation;
·CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL GROUP COMPANIES,
·INCORPORATED, a Delaware
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for calling charges
through the department’s biannual adjustment
process. In addition, the budget act included
provisional language allowing the Department
of Finance (DOF) to augment or reduce this
funding
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a complaint on January 12, 2018 seeking class-action status in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The lawsuit alleges unlawful and exploitative practices by JPay, Inc., Sunrise
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determining that the bank finances CoreCivic and GEO Group, the nation’s two largest privateprison companies. ABC also alleged that Wells Fargo engaged in unfair lending practices in minority communities
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ForensicMedicalGroup (CFMG), the state’s largest provider of correctionalhealthservices. [See: PLN, Feb. 2017, p.30].
The county’s new contract with CFMG requires the company to respond
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Report Finds Substandard Medical Care in ICE Facilities by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In a July 2016 report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) found that 16 of the 18 immigrant detainees who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody from 2012 to 2015 received substandard medical care, and that …
California Sheriff’s Largest Campaign Donors include Corizon and Aramark
by Greg Dober
by Greg Dober
In Alameda County, California, Corizon Correctional Healthcare is facing questions
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-0756761 and the address is:
JPayInc.
12864 Biscayne Blvd, Ste. 143
Miami, FL 33181
(954) 862-6903
If you have any questions regarding this RFO, please contact me. We look forward to hearing from you
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and binding authority, I certify that JPay agrees to the terms
and conditions stated in the RFO. JPay’s FEIN is 01-0756761 and the address is:
JPayInc.
12864 Biscayne Blvd, Ste. 143
Miami, FL 33181
(954) 862
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to a privateprison company. Until 2007, Taft was run by the GEO Group, and since that time it has been operated by Management and Training Corp. (MTC). Taft was built in the San Joaquin Valley, where the soil
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- on paper - is the increased use of out-of-state privateprisons. Brown recently signed two separate deals with privateprison providers CCA and GEO Group to house additional prisoners, making California one
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Capitol, Room 5050
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: Support for SB 29 – Immigrant Detention
Dear Senator Lara:
The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), a leader in the effort to abolish the privateprison
industry
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its ties with Corizon Health, Inc., and awarded a contract for county jail medical services to CaliforniaForensicMedicalGroup (CFMG).
The contract, worth $135 million over a three-year period
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. Initially, it housed male and female immigration detainees. In 2009, EmeraldCorrectionalManagement took over operation of the center, located in San Luis, Arizona. Emerald initiated a 368-bed expansion
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