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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 CorrectCareSolutions
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Texas Towns with PrivatePrisons 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
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Lawsuit Against PrivatePrison 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
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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
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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 …
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increasingly states and municipalities are outsourcing these functions to privateprisonertransportationcompanies, like the PTS Defendants.
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The PTS Defendants provide extradition and secure transportation
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per month from the company, PhysiciansNetworkAssociates (PNA), to ensure that it kept its lucrative contract to provide medical care to prisoners. RCDC, a “Criminal Alien Requirement&rdquo
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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 "privateprison" company
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district court’s sanctions of $1,000 each against lawyers representing GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest privateprison operator, after finding they had engaged in discovery abuse.
Lisa
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the privateprison company LCS Corrections Services, Inc. on May 21, 2013.
Captain William O. Soto alleged in his lawsuit that he assisted a female co-worker with filing a sexual harassment suit against LCS
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in the jail is not only grounded in concerns about basic human rights – it’s also about environmental justice.
The 1,500-bed immigration jail, operated by the privateprison giant GEO Group, sits
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;s for-profit medical contractor, CorrectCareSolutions, LLC, is named as a defendant. See: Kincanon v. Randall County, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Tex.), Case No. 2:17-cv-00055-C.
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PrivatePrison Companies’ Plan to License “Baby Jails” Fails in Texas Legislature
by Bob Libal
by Bob Libal
Legislation developed by privateprison corporation GEO Group that would have
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instructed cm previous occasions that restraints were not to be removed
from inmates in administrative segregation
such as inmates Contrcras and Gonzaleswithout a
doctor's oider and authorization from
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Tellez v. GEO Grp, TX, Order, 2017 Case 5:15-cv-00465-RCL Document 87 Filed 08/01/17 Page 1 of 1 FILED AUG 0 12017 UNiTED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS CLERK. U.S. O$STRICT CLERK WESTERN ISTICT OF TEXAS BYxJ DEPUTY ) RAYMOND TELLEZ, ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) …
interests of CommunityEducationCenters, Inc.
("CEC") that arise under the terms of the Amended and Restated Facility Operation and
Management Agreement dated October 22, 2010, including all amendments
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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 CommunityEducationCenters
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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 …
Amended and Restated Facility Operation and Management Agreement
(hereinafter "Addendum") is entered into by anµ between KINNEY COUNTY, TEXAS (hereinafter
"County") arid COMMUNITYEDUCATIONCENTERS, INC
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