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Capitol, Room 5050
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: Support for SB 29 – Immigrant Detention
Dear Senator Lara:
The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), a leader in the effort to abolish the privateprison
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its ties with Corizon Health, Inc., and awarded a contract for county jail medical services to CaliforniaForensicMedicalGroup (CFMG).
The contract, worth $135 million over a three-year period
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. 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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by proposing to close five prisons with 1,400 beds.
Item: California is facing a $20 billion budget shortfall. It costs $70 per day to house a convict in a state prison, $44 per day in a privateprison. Governor
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-conscious and pale.
The nurse who found her was Elisa Pacheco, an employee of the CaliforniaForensicMedicalGroup, a private company that provides correctional medical services to rural counties like
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jail system within a five-year period, a class-action lawsuit was filed in 2013 against both the jail and CaliforniaForensicMedicalGroup, alleging substandard intake procedures, medical care
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support to
Probation's bureaus and managers.
Probation's services are admínistered and financed through five separate operating
budget units, which include Juvenile lnstitutions Services (JlS), Support
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Aramark to Provide Heart-Healthy Meals at San Francisco Jail
by David Reutter
The City of San Francisco negotiated a new contract with its food vendor, Aramark Correction Services, to provide
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CDCR Out of State Prison Contract with CCA, CDCR, 2006 Agreement Number C06.298-0 California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation SCOPE OF WORK Exhibit A OFFENDER RELOCATION/HOUSING AGREEMENT BETWEEN STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA This Contract is entered into effective October 19, 2006, between the State of California …
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SIGNATURE ON FILE AT FACILITY SUPPORT CENTER
Richard P. Seiter
Executive Vice President/Chief Corrections Officer
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evaluate the process
the department used to negotiate and enter into two no-bid
contracts for privateprison facilities to determine whether
its policies and procedures are consistent with and adhere
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Research Report on Cost and Performance of Taft Correctional Institute, Nov, DOJ, 2005 The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: Contracting for Imprisonment in the Federal Prison System: Cost and Performance of the Privately Operated …
hires, critical management positions such as the CorrectionalHealthServices Administrator II, Health Program Manager II, and Supervising Registered Nurse II
positions remain vacant.
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Report on Inspections of PrivatePrisons With Cdcr Prisoners, CA OIG, 2010
David R. Shaw, Inspector General
Office of the Inspector General
December 2, 2010
Matthew L. Cate, Secretary
California
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, kicking him, repeatedly shocking him with Tasers and improperly restraining him. He was transferred to the jail infirmary, which was operated by PrisonHealthServices. Eventually he was taken to a hospital
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In 2011, PrisonHealthServices merged with its largest competitor, Correctional Medical Services, to become the largest company of its kind in the country. Corizon boasts operations in the jails
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in a rubber room without any food and only three drinks of water.
In May 2013, Murphy joined four other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Monterey County, Sheriff Scott Miller and CaliforniaForensicMedical
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