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Suit Against CCA Dismissed For Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Civil Procedure, Evidentiary Ruling, Jury Instructions

that PLRA applicability to private prisons was an unresolved issue, but assuming for this case that it did apply, the Tenth Circuit held, "Even though matters involving federal and state law and regulation ...

Oklahoma Requires Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies For Ex-Prisoner Suits

Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006

Filed under: Private Prisons, Administrative Exhaustion, State Legislation

Oklahoma Requires Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies For Ex-Prisoner Suits by The Oklahoma Legislature has enacted a law that prohibits former prisoners from bringing a civil action unless the prisoner has exhausted all administrative remedies. To PLNs knowledge, this is the first law of its kind. The legislation, which was signed …

Oklahoma Prisons Suffer Crisis of Violence and Mismanagement

Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Criminal Prosecution, Prison/Jail Murders, Escapes, Failure to Protect (General), Staffing

to death. LCF is a private prison run by GEO Group, Inc. Stiles was serving 10 years for possession of contraband. His cell partner, Robert M. Cooper, 32, who is serving life without parole for a first ...

CCA Finally Loses Contract at Mismanaged Tulsa Jail

Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Financing, Guard Misconduct, Jail Specific, Suicides, State Legislation

are that the county would save $4 million a year by letting the sheriff run the jail compared with CCA. Once again, CCA has proven that privatizing prisons is a bad idea whose time has gone. Sources ...

Another CCA Prison in Oklahoma, Another Riot

Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Gang Policies, Prison Rebellion, Prison/Jail Murders, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death)

Another CCA Prison in Oklahoma, Another Riot by by Matthew T. Clarke On March 22, 2005, a riot at a private prison run by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) near Cushing, Oklahoma ...

Uprisings at CCA Prisons Reveal Weaknesses in Out-of-State Imprisonment Policies

Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Escapes

into account the distance from Vermont when rejecting bids from Emerald Correction Management to use a Texas prison and CiviGenics to use a prison in Louisiana. However, the consideration was not to reduce ...

City Settles In Death of Prisoner at CCA-Operated Tulsa Jail

Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Medical, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Municipal Liability, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

City Settles In Death of Prisoner at CCA-Operated Tulsa Jail by The City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has agreed to settle its part in a federal lawsuit over the death of a Native American prisoner in the Tulsa Jail. According to the November 7, 2003 settlement, the city will pay the …

CCA Closes Oklahoma Prison, Settles Tax Lawsuit Over Ohio Prison

Article • March 15, 2004 • from PLN March, 2004

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Financing, Prison Rebellion, Staffing, Money/Property, Tax Law, Telephone Rates

as a recession proof industry and rural welfare program for poor whites. But prisons can be a double edged sword, sometimes causing more problems than they solve. Private prisons can be especially duplicitous ...

CCA Pays $54 Million to IRS and Settles Gender Discrimination Complaint

Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Financing, Contractor Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Money/Property, Tax Law, Employee Litigation

CCA Pays $54 Million to IRS and Settles Gender Discrimination Complaint by On October 28, 2002, Corrections Corp. of America, (CCA) settled its 1997 federal taxes after an audit by the Internal Revenue Service for the sum of $54 million. The IRS challenged the validity of the tax deductions that …

FLSA Inapplicable to Oklahoma Prisoners in Private Prisons

Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003

Filed under: Private Prisons, Cornell Corrections, Prison Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act

. Michael Washington, a prisoner of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, (ODOC), was transferred to the Great Plains Correctional Facility, (GPCF), a private prison operated by Cornell Corrections, Inc ...

Hawaiian Women Prisoners File Suit Over Sex Abuse, Torture in Oklahoma Private Prison

Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Dominion Group, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Abortion

Hawaiian Women Prisoners File Suit Over Sex Abuse, Torture in Oklahoma Private Prison by Lonnie Burton When the State of Hawaii opted in 1998 to send its female prisoners to a privately run ...

Former CCA Captain and Texas Probation Officer Pleads Guilty

Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Guard Misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Probation

, and then persuaded a guard to write a report claiming the attack was in self-defense. CCA, the largest private prison company, operates the WCF, which houses mostly prisoners from Wisconsin. After the attack ...

Summary Judgment Denied in Oklahoma Jail Beating

Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Skeletal Injury, Injury -- Misc., Private Contractors, Brain Injury, Conditions of Confinement, Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, Qualified Immunity, Municipal Liability, Contractor Liability, Marriage

Summary Judgment Denied in Oklahoma Jail Beating by A federal district court in Oklahoma has denied summary judgment against a pretrial detainee's failure to protect and deliberate indifference to medical needs claims. On September 5, 1995, John Winton was booked into the Tulsa County Jail on shooting charges that were …

Riot at CCA Prison Hospitalizes 15 Guards

Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Rebellion, Guards/Staff, Assaults on Staff

that prison response teams used tear gas to bring the situation under control. The North Fork facility is a private prison ooperated by Corrections Corporation of America. Susan Hart, spokeswoman for CCA ...

Escape Costs Oklahoma Private Prison $304,375

Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000

Filed under: Private Prisons, Cornell Corrections, Escapes, Contractor Liability

Escape Costs Oklahoma Private Prison $304,375 by Gordon Flud's April 12, 2000, escape from a Hinton, Oklahoma rent-a-jail didn't end well for him--or for his prison. Flud, 44, jumped fences ...

OK Private Prison Fined $168,750

Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000

Filed under: Cornell Corrections, Contractor Misconduct, Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, Medical Records

by Cornell Corrections, a private, for-profit prison company. GPCF is the first private prison to open in Oklahoma. Dennis Cunningham, the Oklahoma DOC's private prison administrator, said at the time ...

Riots Rock CCA Prison in Oklahoma

Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Rebellion

Riots Rock CCA Prison in Oklahoma by In Nov. 1998 Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) opened the Diamondback Corr. Facility in Watonga, OK and filled it with prisoners from Indiana and Hawaii. According to a prisoner housed at the facility there was a great deal of tension between the two …

Wisconsin Prisoners Stage Food Protest

Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Hunger Strikes, Food

Wisconsin Prisoners Stage Food Protest by On January 18 and 19, 1999, Wisconsin prisoners housed at a private prison in Sayre, Oklahoma, refused to show up at the prison's chow hall ...

Oklahoma Pulls Out of TX Rent-A-Jail

Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Private Prisons, Capital Correctional Resources Inc, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas

of a conflict over the use of pepper spray on "unruly inmates." Limestone County, Texas, contracts with a private firm, Capital Correctional Resources, Inc. (CCRI), to operate its rent-a-jail. The approximately ...

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