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]. The facility is operated by privateprison firm Management & Training Corp.; it was previously operated by GEO Group before the company discontinued its contracts in Mississippi in 2012. [See: PLN, Nov. 2013
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PrivatePrison Company Not Liable for Guard's Death in Riot
by Lonnie Burton
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) successfully moved in federal court to dismiss a suit brought
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Tennessee Jail Seizure Death Claims Survive Dismissal; Physician Claims Dismissed for No Deliberate Indifference Allegations by Mark Wilson A Tennessee federal court dismissed deliberate indifference claims against a jail doctor for a prisoner's seizure death, absent allegations of his personal involvement or awareness. The court refused to dismiss claims brought …
. Initially, it housed male and female immigration detainees. In 2009, EmeraldCorrectionalManagement took over operation of the center, located in San Luis, Arizona. Emerald initiated a 368-bed expansion
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Hungry Prisoners Dread Privatized Food Services
by David Reutter
Privatizingprison and jail services has become a popular avenue for correctional bureaucrats to utilize in the never-ending
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Apples-to-Fish: Public and PrivatePrison Cost Comparisons
by Alex Friedmann
by Alex Friedmann*
It sounds like such a simple question: do privateprisons save money? The answer, however
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of the Inspector General (OIG).
The 86-page report examined data from 14 privateprisons that contract with the BOP; those CAR (Criminal Alien Requirement) facilities hold around 27,000 non-citizen federal prisoners
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CCA Prison Not Reporting Valley Fever Cases among Hawaii Prisoners by Coccidioidomycosis is the medical term for valley fever, an airborne fungal disease that led to more than 5,600 reported infections in Arizona in 2014; the disease is also prevalent in some areas of California. PLN has previously reported on …
Merger of Prisoner TransportCompanies Delayed after Objections Filed
by Derek Gilna
Prisoner Transportation Services, also known as PTS of America, LLC, bills itself as the “largest
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Corporations, Colleges and Cities Dump PrivatePrison Stock
by Joe Watson
Opponents of mass incarceration have notched several small but significant victories by successfully pressuring
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Class-action Suit Filed Against GEO Group for Violation of Job Applicants’ Rights by GEO Group and Accurate Background, Inc. have been sued in federal court in New York for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) when conducting criminal background checks on GEO job applicants. The suit, filed on October …
Judge Orders End to Recording of Attorney-Client Meetings at CCA’s Leavenworth Detention Center by Derek Gilna The Kansas Federal Public Defenders’ Office has challenged a scheme whereby officials at a detention center in Leavenworth, Kansas operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) secretly video-recorded confidential attorney-client meetings. As a result, …
Private Medical Contractors in Kentucky Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity by The Kentucky Court of Appeals held that a trial court improperly granted summary judgment to the defendants in a civil action alleging a prisoner received negligent medical care at the Hardin County Detention Center (HCDC). HCDC contracts with Southern …
to 2009 defendants subject to electronic monitoring were overseen by a privatecontractor, Total Sentencing Alternatives Program (T-SAP). T-SAP lost its contract following criticism that it failed to timely
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GEO Group Still Invests in Florida Politics by Prison Legal News has long reported on the financial partnership between for-profit prison firm GEO Group and Florida politicians – a “legacy of corruption,” as detailed in PLN’s March 2011 cover story. GEO’s Political Action Committee (PAC) in Florida, where the company …
From the Editor
by Paul Wright
PLN has opposed the privateprison industry since we began publishing in 1990; back then the industry was in its infancy, having started in 1983 in its modern
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PrivateContractor Makes Millions Off GPS Trackers for Immigrants
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By Eileen Townsend, Memphis Flyer
Nearly 200 undocumented Memphians wear GPS tracking bracelets as a part
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GEO Group Fined More Than $100,000 (by OSHA) by Prison profiteer GEO Group was cited by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) in a June 2012 report with six safety and health violations—totaling $104,000 in fines—at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, which the company formerly managed. OSHA said that, …
Arizona Fines Wexford SIOK for Neglect, Hep-C Exposure
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Arizona's Department of Corrections (ADC) disciplines privatecontractors like parents who banish teenagers to the cozy confines
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indifference by individual defendants, vicarious liability of CorrectionalMedicalCare, Inc. ("CMC"), and professional malpractice.
Peter D'Agostino, a prisoner in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility
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