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the surface of the controversial privateprison industry by viewing it from the outside. Prisons both public and private are notorious for their lack of transparency, typically justified in the name of &ldquo
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and other staff against safety and health hazards, including assaults.”
CommunityEducationCenters (CEC) operates a halfway house in Long Beach, California, where state authorities found the company
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Hawaii Prisoner Awarded $7.2 Million after Losing His Fingers and Feet by Christopher Zoukis In October 2011, 30-year-old Aaron David Persin was accosted by police officers for having an open container of alcohol. When they determined that he had warrants for missing traffic court they arrested Persin, who was homeless. …
are considering hiring a privateprison company, such as Corrections Corporation of America, to build the new prison and lease it to the state. CCA houses hundreds of Hawaii prisoners in for-profit facilities
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by Corrections Corporation of America. [See: PLN, Nov. 2014, p.44]. Further, CIIC inspections led the state to fine private food vendor Aramark $272,000 for maggot outbreaks in prison kitchens and multiple
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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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Jail’s Private Medical Employees Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity
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An Arizona federal district court concluded that employees of Corizon Health, a private company providing care
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Congressional Black Caucus PAC Urged to Cut Ties with PrivatePrison Lobbyists
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The Congressional Black Caucus Political Action Committee (CBC PAC) says that it works to increase
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to natural causes.
DiNino’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county and its private health care provider, PrimeCareMedical, in April 2015. The suit alleged that jail and medical staff
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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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Pfizer Deals Blow to Lethal Injections by Christopher Zoukis Pfizer, Inc., the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, recently announced new restrictions on the distribution of drugs used to execute prisoners. The May 13, 2016 announcement detailed “distribution restrictions” that the company is placing on certain drugs used in lethal injection protocols, …
Florida Courthouse Employees Commit Crimes with “Alarming Regularity” by A local news station reported on March 29, 2016 that Joseph Safonte, 72, was placed on desk duty after becoming the target of an internal investigation into the theft of items from the lost and found at the courthouse in Broward …
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, …
and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle on April 10, 2014, protesting the Foundation’s investments in the GEO Group, the second-largest privateprison company in the U.S.
The demonstrators urged the Gates
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full-time prison staff members, so if the privatecontractors are willing to run the visitation system themselves, it’s a pretty sweet deal for counties. Especially when those contractors
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; Besides providing security services, it also operates privateprisons and immigration detention centers, provides electronic tagging (monitoring) for offenders on community supervision and has a prisoner
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, the nation’s two largest privateprison contractors announced dramatic increases in their first-quarter earnings for the year. The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) reported a 17 percent increase over
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and Detention Watch Network, both non-profit organizations that oppose prison privatization, reported that over half of ICE detention facilities are operated by privatecontractors. Those privateprison firms
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Advocates Leery of Cell Phones Given to Undocumented Immigrants by Derek Gilna Immigration rights advocates are suspicious of a new government-funded program administered by GEO Care – a division of the GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison companies – that supplies cell phones to low-risk undocumented immigrants. …
staff had not been trained in the use of the defibrillator or oxygen bottles. Her estate filed suit against Correctional Medical Services (which later merged with PrisonHealthServices to form Corizon
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