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Texas Uses Failed Private Prison to Hold Civilly Committed Sex Offenders

Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Correct Care Solutions, Totality of Conditions, Civil Commitment

into a “tiered” treatment program, in which participants start out in a “total confinement facility” at twice the cost of the original program. The state awarded Correct Care Solutions ...

Texas Towns with Private Prisons Experience Job Losses

Article • August 6, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Management and Training Corporation, LaSalle Management Company, Staffing, Guards/Staff

Texas Towns with Private Prisons Experience Job Losses by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke Over a decade ago, with the promise of cost savings as well as stable jobs for the community, local ...

Lawsuit Against Private Prison Firm Over Prisoner’s Death at Texarkana Jail

Article • August 6, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018

Filed under: LaSalle Management Company, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Lawsuit Against Private Prison Firm Over Prisoner’s Death at Texarkana Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke The family of a prisoner who died at the Bi-State Jail in Texarkana has filed ...

Financial Processes at the Department of Criminal Justice, State of Texas, 2018

Publication • June 1, 2018

Filed under: Private Prisons, Statistics/Trends

of the House, Joint Chair The Honorable Jane Nelson, Senate Finance Committee The Honorable Robert Nichols, Member, Texas Senate The Honorable John Zerwas, House Appropriations Committee The Honorable Dennis ...

Texas Policy Foundation Center for Effective Justice--Open Roads and Overflowing Jails--Addressing High Rates of Rural Pretrial Incarceration, May 2018

Publication • May 1, 2018

Filed under: Private Prisons, War on Drugs, Overcrowding, Eighth Amendment, Jail Specific, Rural Prisons, Mental Health, Drug Treatment/Rehab, Second Amendment, Sixth Amendment

Texas Policy Foundation Center for Effective Justice--Open Roads and Overflowing Jails--Addressing High Rates of Rural Pretrial Incarceration, May 2018 OPEN ROADS AND OVERFLOWING JAILS: Addressing High Rates of Rural Pretrial Incarceration by Marc Levin and Michael Haugen May 2018 May 2018 by Marc Levin Michael Haugen Center for Effective Justice …

Kovari v. U.S. Prisoner Transport and John Does, injuries during transport, complaint, 2018

Brief • April 24, 2018

Filed under: Transport Companies, Medical, Food, Overcrowding, Sanitation, Transportation, Federal Extradition Act, Staff Training, False Arrest, Fourth Amendment, rights, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights

, increasingly states and municipalities are outsourcing these functions to private prisoner transportation companies, like the PTS Defendants. 21. The PTS Defendants provide extradition and secure transportation ...

Indictment Alleges Prison Healthcare Company Bribed Texas State Senator

Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Private Contractors

per month from the company, Physicians Network Associates (PNA), to ensure that it kept its lucrative contract to provide medical care to prisoners. RCDC, a “Criminal Alien Requirement&rdquo ...

Gonzalez v. Core Civic, TX, Complaint, 2018

Brief • February 22, 2018

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Labor, Class Certification

Martha Gonzalez, individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, files this original complaint against CoreCivic, Inc. STATEMENT OF THE CASE CoreCivic is a "private prison" company ...

Fifth Circuit Upholds Sanctions Against GEO Group Attorneys for Discovery Abuse

Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Discovery

district court’s sanctions of $1,000 each against lawyers representing GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest private prison operator, after finding they had engaged in discovery abuse. Lisa ...

$283,549 to Jail Guard in Retaliation Suit

Article • December 20, 2017

Filed under: Private Prisons, Retaliation against Staff, Guards/Staff

the private prison company LCS Corrections Services, Inc. on May 21, 2013. Captain William O. Soto alleged in his lawsuit that he assisted a female co-worker with filing a sexual harassment suit against LCS ...

Climate Refugees in Toxic Immigrant Jails Are Victims of Environmental Racism

Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017

Filed under: Private Prisons, Immigration

in the jail is not only grounded in concerns about basic human rights – it’s also about environmental justice. The 1,500-bed immigration jail, operated by the private prison giant GEO Group, sits ...

Misdemeanor Trespassing Arrest Leads to Permanent Impairment

Article • October 9, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions, Seizures, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

;s for-profit medical contractor, Correct Care Solutions, LLC, is named as a defendant. See: Kincanon v. Randall County, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Tex.), Case No. 2:17-cv-00055-C. Source ...

Private Prison Companies’ Plan to License “Baby Jails” Fails in Texas Legislature

Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Immigration, Juveniles

Private Prison Companies’ Plan to License “Baby Jails” Fails in Texas Legislature by Bob Libal by Bob Libal Legislation developed by private prison corporation GEO Group that would have ...

Tellez v. GEO Grp, TX, Memorandum Opinion, 2017

Brief • August 1, 2017

Filed under: Private Prisons, GEO Group/Wackenhut

instructed cm previous occasions that restraints were not to be removed from inmates in administrative segregation such as inmates Contrcras and Gonzaleswithout a doctor's oider and authorization from ...

Tellez v. GEO Grp, TX, Order, 2017

Brief • August 1, 2017

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut

Tellez v. GEO Grp, TX, Order, 2017 Case 5:15-cv-00465-RCL Document 87 Filed 08/01/17 Page 1 of 1 FILED AUG 0 12017 UNiTED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS CLERK. U.S. O$STRICT CLERK WESTERN ISTICT OF TEXAS BYxJ DEPUTY ) RAYMOND TELLEZ, ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) …

Kinney County, Resolution Approving Request to Consent (GEO, CEC), 2017

Publication • May 8, 2017

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Community Education Centers, Immigration Detention

interests of Community Education Centers, Inc. ("CEC") that arise under the terms of the Amended and Restated Facility Operation and Management Agreement dated October 22, 2010, including all amendments ...

Escape is Latest Problem at Troubled Privately-run Texas Jail

Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017

Filed under: Community Education Centers, Escapes, Exercise, Water, Suicides

was recaptured living in a wooded area in Arkansas in late January 2016. His escape was the latest in a slew of problems at the 281-bed facility, which is operated by New Jersey-based Community Education Centers ...

ICE Bans Crayons in Family Detention Center Visiting Area

Article • February 8, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Immigration, Visiting, Attorney Visits, Juveniles, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons, Family, Mothers in Prison, Children of Prisoners

ICE Bans Crayons in Family Detention Center Visiting Area by Prisoners who cause property damage in correctional facilities often receive swift punishment. It was no different for the very young prisoners held in one of the United States’ most controversial detention centers. Housed with their immigrant mothers in the GEO …

Kinney County, Addendum to 2nd Agreement (GEO, CEC), 2017

Publication • January 9, 2017

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Community Education Centers, Immigration Detention

Amended and Restated Facility Operation and Management Agreement (hereinafter "Addendum") is entered into by anµ between KINNEY COUNTY, TEXAS (hereinafter "County") arid COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTERS, INC ...

After-Action Report - Reeves Co Detention Center TX, fBOP, 2009

Publication • December 29, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Corrections Audits, Prison Rebellion, Guard Brutality/Beatings

After-Action Report - Reeves Co Detention Center TX, fBOP, 2009 e Th e iv at ig st ve In Fu nd e Th e iv at ig st ve In Fu nd e Th e iv at ig st ve In Fu nd e Th e iv at ig st …

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