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Uprisings at CCA Prisons Reveal Weaknesses in Out-of-State Imprisonment Policies

Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Escapes

into account the distance from Vermont when rejecting bids from Emerald Correction Management to use a Texas prison and CiviGenics to use a prison in Louisiana. However, the consideration was not to reduce ...

District of Columbia May Be Liable for Prisoner's Inadequate Medical Care

Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, CMS, Medical, Skin, Muscular, Estoppell, Municipal Liability

of Corrections (VDOC), where Corrections Medical Service (CMS) provides health care under contract to VDOC. Baker sued the District of Columbia, BOP officials, GCC officials, and six medical personnel ...

Fighting for Fair Phone Rates

Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Telephone Rates

also allowing prisoners to use debit cards. This Petition was filed in November 2003. It asks that the FCC allow multiple long distance carriers at private prisons, prohibit the paying of commissions ...

Religious Discrimination, Unsanitary Food Suit Denied Summary Judgment

Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002

Filed under: Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Food, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Qualified Immunity, Religious Diet

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 ...

DC Prison Guards Smuggled Cash, Pagers

Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct

sting, according to the Washington Post . The indictments signaled the end of a twoyear federal investigation into corruption at the private prison. Federal prosecutors said the guards accepted ...

Washington Prisoners' Out-of-State Transfer Upheld

Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Esmor/CSC

prisoners to an outofstate, private prison. In March of 1999, DOC transferred 254 prisoners to the Correctional Services Corporation run Crowley County Correctional Facility in Olney Springs Colorado [PLN ...

University Cancels Sodhexo-Marriott Contract

Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Organizing, Food

University Cancels Sodhexo-Marriott Contract by Students from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, declared victory August 14, 2000 in a two month struggle to keep a catering company with ties to the forprofit prison industry from taking over the school's food service contract. In July, school administrators announced that the …

Marriott Cancels Prison Protest Concert

Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Education, Censorship

planned," Epstein told a packed house from the stage of the Tavern, "But Marriott Dining Services, a company that invests highly in private prisons, has determined that the show is not going to happen ...

Washington Prisoners Damage Colorado Private Prison

Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Esmor/CSC, Prison Rebellion, Clothing, Restraints

Washington Prisoners Damage Colorado Private Prison by Amajor prisoner uprising rolled through a for-profit prison at Olney Springs, Colorado, for six hours, causing extensive damage. State ...

Washington Prisoners Brutalized in Colorado Private Prison

Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Esmor/CSC, Prison Rebellion, Food, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Shootings

Washington Prisoners Brutalized in Colorado Private Prison by Waldo Waldron-Ramsey [Editor's Note: The corporate media in Colorado and Washington alike reported on the uprising by Washington ...

Our Sisters' Keepers

Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Sexual Harassment, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women

Our Sisters' Keepers by Daniel Burton-Rose No one can imagine. What it's like. Not unless you've gone through it. Christina Foos has. While incarcerated in a for-profit prison in Arizona, Christina says she was accosted by a guard, Ernesto Rivas, as she stepped out of the shower in March of …

WA DOC Telecommuncations Services Report-JPay Submissions

Publication

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Private Phone Contractors

WA DOC Telecommuncations Services Report-JPay Submissions JPay Submission Revised Code of Washington, Title 72, Chapter 72.09 Submission Washington Department of Corrections (WA DOC) Telecommunications Services Report The following information is submitted to the WA DOC in accordance with RCW 72.09.765, Subsection 3, Inmate access to telecommunication services—Contracting—Reporting Product / Service …

State of Washington DOC Contract-JPay, 07-20-2009

Publication

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Private Phone Contractors

of last signature by the parties, by and between JPay, Inc. ("Contractor"), located at 12864 Biscayne Blvd. Suite 243, Miami, FL 33181 and the State of Washington acting by and through its DEPARTMENT ...

State of Washington DOC Contract-JPay, Amendment No. 1

Publication

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Private Phone Contractors

of Corrections, hereinafter referred to as Department, and JPay, Inc., hereinafter referred to as the Contractor, for the purpose of amending the above-referenced Contract, heretofore entered into between ...

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