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Los Angeles Jail Canteen Audit: Contractor Rakes In $640,213 Excess Profits by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Compass Group USA, Inc. doing business at the Los Angeles County Jail as Canteen Services (Canteen), was booked by the county auditor for extracting $640,213 in excess profits from its gross prisoner …
Tennessee DOC’s Double Standard by G.A. Bowers Tennessee DOC's Double Standard by Greg Bowers The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) applies a double standard to ethical violations committed by its employees and those committed by prisoners. TDOC staff who commit ethical violations are typically reassigned. Even when fired, they have …
million captive customers, and it is a "growth industry." Privateprisontransportcompanies, medical and psychological, telephone, food and commissary services are reaping ever-increasing profits from
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Sexually Harassed Prison Kitchen Worker Awarded $90,000 by On August 20, 2002, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky awarded $90,000 to a prison kitchen worker who was sexually harassed by a prison captain. The judgment was against her former employer, Kellwell Food Management (KFM). While working …
of mandamus, seeking
to compel Aramark Food Service to provide a copy of the food service
contract between Aramark and the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC).
The petition was filed by prisoner Thomas P
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sufficient to
withstand a motion to dismiss. Nartin Drake, a prisoner at the Cook County
Jail, brought actions under §1983 and state law against jail officials and
Aramark Food Services (AFS), which contracts
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Pro Se Suit against CMS and Aramark Dismissed
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The plaintiff's release from prison moots his request for declaratory and
injunctive relief.
The plaintiff's claim for "emotional
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Tennessee Prison Contracting Official Engaged to Contractor by The Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) is investigating whether a romance between a prison contract oversight official and a prison contractor involved any impropriety. TDOC purchasing director Nola Butler disclosed her romantic relationship with prison commissary contractor Martin Jennen, president of American …
Florida Prison Canteen Operators Offices Raided by David Reutter Florida Prison Canteen Operator's Offices Raided by David M. Reutter Agents from the FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement raided the office of American Institutional Services (AIS) on June 7, 2006 and seized the companys business records. AIS ran weekend …
and Aramarks 2001 $42,000 donation to the GOP when Floridas Republican Governor Jeb Bush privatizedprison food services.
In October 2001, the Naples Daily News reported that Aramark employee Debbie Quashie
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HealthServices (PHS), EMSA and CorrectionalHealthServices all of which have horrendous track records of sacrificing prisoner health and safety in pursuit of larger profits executive compensation
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Aramark to Pay $65,000 for Overbilling Pennsylvania Prison
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Pennsylvania's Dauphin County Prison (DCP) will receive $65,000 from its food service vendor due to overbilling. The settlement
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GAO: PrivateContractors Perform Poorly At Overseas Military Prisons
by Matthew T. Clarke
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released April 29, 2005, criticized the militarys
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"The theoretical proposition that privatization is always better is not necessarily true," Hersch insists.
Don't feel bad Jay, PLN has been saying that about privateprisons for years.
Source: Richmond Times
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into a five-year contract with Philadelphia's cost-conscious Aramark Corporation to feed prisoners at 126 of the 133 prisons in Florida. The contract is projected to reduce FDOC's cost of feeding its prisoners
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for college classes that prisoners did not, or were not eligible to, attend.
Dining for Dollars
In 1998, NCI executed a two year contract with Aramark , a private, for profit food service company based
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Caesar was the Chaplain at Lorton Reformatory's Maximum Security Facility (Maximum) while Caldwell was confined there. Aramark is a private company contracted by D.C. to prepare and serve food
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at the Nobel Correctional Institution (NCI).
In October, 1998, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) awarded a two-year contract to ARAMARK Correctional Services, a private company
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would be the next great leap forward for Ohio penology. So they bid out a contract for private firms to provide food service at the Noble Correctional Institution. Of the two bids submitted, from ARAMARK
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