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as the worst sexual predators in the state, is necessary to ensure public safety. For Correct Care Recovery Solutions, a spin-off company of the GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest privateprison
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Gatlin v. Corizon, NM, Settlement, Sexual Assault, 2017
SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE
This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE ("Agreement") is
entered into by Jason T. Gatlin ("Plaintiff
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. Attorney Kirsch added, “There is an irony to the fact that a corporation in the business of running privateprisons chooses to re-brand itself with the trademark of one of its most active critics
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PLN Goes Undercover to Bust CCA Employees’ Misuse of Prisoner Labor by When PLN managing editor Alex Friedmann received a letter from a prisoner at the Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility in Nashville, Tennessee, a jail operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA, which recently changed its name to CoreCivic), he …
CCA response to AP records request re staffing 2016, CCA, April 5, 2016 5 April 2016 Requester Travis Loller The Associated Press 1207 18th Ave. South, Suite 261A Nashville, TN 37212 Log Number 201600094 Please see the following response to a public records request sent to Steve Groom, General Counsel, …
, attorneys, insurers or the Internal Revenue Service. The parties may disclose the
terms of this Agreement as required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(hereinafter "CMS"). Released Parties
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Tenth Circuit Rules on $3.38 Million Verdict in CCA Prison Sexual Abuse Case by Derek Gilna In February 2012, a federal jury in New Mexico awarded $3.38 million to three female prisoners who were raped by Anthony Townes, a guard at the Camino Nuevo Women’s Correctional Facility, which was operated …
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,JOHN DOE/JANE DOE MEDICAL STAFF,
JOHN DOE/JANE DOE CORRECTIONS OFFICERS,
SERGEANT STEVEN CAMPOS,
THE GEO GROUP, INC, AND
CORIZON, INC.,
Defendants.
COMPLAINT FOR MEDICALMALPRACTICE, ASSAULT
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certify that on October 26, 2016, I electronically filed a
copy of the foregoing Third Amended Complaint with the Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF
system.
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Spurlock v. Townes, NM, Settlement, Sexual Assault, 2016 SETTLEMENTAGREEMENT,RELEASEAND COVENANTOF NON-DISCLOSURE For the consideration of the sum of SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND AND 00/100 ($700,000.00), paid by CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, HEATHER SPURLOCK, SOPHIA CARRASCO, and NINA CARRERA do hereby release, acquit …
New Mexico Foundation for Open Government v. Corizon Health, NM, Mot for Stay of Order, Records Request, 2016
FILED IN MY OFFICE
DISTRICT COURT CLERK
8/22/2016 5:27:01 PM
STEPHEN T. PACHECO
Jorge
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New Mexico Foundation for Open Government v. Corizon Health, NM, Answer to Petition, Records Request, 2016
FILED IN MY OFFICE
DISTRICT COURT CLERK
8/15/20161:27:11 PM
STEPHEN T. PACHECO
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Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. Details regarding bed guarantees in immigrant detention contracts with privateprison firms were buried in the fine print.
“Because ICE does not want to appear wasteful
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Illinois DOC Settles Lawsuit Over Mental Health Treatment by Derek Gilna It took eight years but civil rights attorneys finally prevailed in a federal lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), entering into a settlement that requires prison officials to provide 11,000 mentally ill state prisoners with adequate mental …
to comply with public records laws in those states. [See: PLN, April 2014, p.35; July 2013, p.42]. PLN had previously filed a public records suit against PrisonHealthServices (now Corizon Health) in Vermont
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that
a privatecontractor performing a public function was acting "on behalf of' a public body
and was therefore subject to all the requirements of IPRA).
IPRA defines "public records" as:
all documents, papers
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PrivatePrison Execs Continue to Make Much More than Guards
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Information collected by the federal government has revealed the conspicuous inequality between privateprison executives
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DC Prisoner Awarded $70,000 for ADA Violations at CCA-run Jail by Derek Gilna William Pierce, a prisoner held by the District of Columbia’s Department of Corrections (DCDOC), has won a $70,000 jury verdict for repeated violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Pierce, who suffers from severe hearing loss, …
Emery amd Burgdorf v. Burtch, MI, Order adopting R&R, Corizon doctor sexual abuse PREA, 2016
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