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Ninth Circuit: Prisoner’s Service of Process for Other Prisoner Not Protected Conduct by Mark Wilson Ninth Circuit: Prisoner’s Service of Process for Other Prisoner Not Protected Conduct by Mark Wilson On September 10, 2013, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a prisoner’s retaliation claim, holding that …
How to Starve the For-profit Prison Beast
by Justin Jones
How to Starve the For-profit Prison Beast
by Justin Jones
I know some privateprison lobbyists who would love it if you were found
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, Okoro’s health deteriorated when he suffered from schizophrenia and stopped monitoring his diabetes.
Williamson County contracts with HealthProfessionals, Ltd. (HPL) to provide medical care
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SEC Rejects CCA, GEO Group Shareholder Resolutions to Reduce Prison Phone Rates by SEC Rejects CCA, GEO Group Shareholder Resolutions to Reduce Prison Phone Rates On February 18, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted a request filed by for-profit prison company GEO Group to exclude a shareholder resolution …
been fired in the wake of allegations that the chief of security sexually assaulted a female prisoner at the facility. The 285-bed jail is operated by the New Jersey-based CommunityEducationCenters
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Prison Closures Cause Economic Turmoil by Shrinking state budgets across the country are leading to prison closures that in turn have a negative impact on communities that depend on the facilities as a source of jobs and revenue. [See: PLN, June 2013, p.1; April 2009, p.1]. Small towns in Kentucky, …
-managed prisons,” said Friedmann. “This is presumably due to the business model of the privateprison industry, which must cut costs in order to generate profit. Those cuts, particularly
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Seventh Circuit: Jail Social Worker Ignored Detainee’s Suicide Risk by Seventh Circuit: Jail Social Worker Ignored Detainee’s Suicide Risk On August 12, 2013, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a jail social worker could be held liable for ignoring a detainee’s obvious risk of committing suicide. Algerian citizen …
. See: Carithers v. CCA, U.S.D.C. (S.D. Miss.), Case No. 5:13-cv-00066-DCB-MTP.
CCA is not the only for-profit prison company that has experienced problems in Mississippi. Privateprison firm GEO Group
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practice.
Ultimately, the importance of Brown’s initiative may actually be in realigning the CDCR with privateprison providers.While California has largely avoided privateprisons, with Brown under
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Florida Prisoner Awarded $1.2 Million for Burn Injuries by Florida Prisoner Awarded $1.2 Million for Burn Injuries A Florida jury has awarded a prisoner $1.2 million in a negligence suit against the GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest for-profit prison company, following a trial that was delayed more than a year …
, but most did not seek medical treatment.
Representatives from PrimeCareMedical, the contractor that provides healthcare for all West Virginia jails, did not respond to a request for comment.
In February
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;s summary judgment order were affirmed. See: Withers v. WexfordHealthServices, Inc., 710 F.3d 688 (7th Cir. 2013).
Following remand, the district court entered summary judgment in favor
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by Robert Warlick
The Kansas Court of Appeals held that employees of CorrectCareSolutions at the Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF) committed continuing Eighth Amendment violations by withholding
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Security Giant Admits $38 Million Fraud by James Kilgore G4S, which bills itself as “the world’s largest security company,” has encountered rough going in the carceral marketplace in recent weeks. The latest episode in the troubles of this British-Danish security giant came with its public admission on November 18 that …
$2.25 Million Jury Verdict against LCS in Texas Prisoner Death Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 24, 2012, a federal jury in Texas awarded $2.25 million to the estate and survivors of a prisoner who died at a facility operated by LCS Corrections Services (LCS), after finding …
. [See: PLN, June 2013, p.46]. Such records would have been made public had the jail been operated by a government agency.
“This is one of the many failings of privateprisons,” said PLN
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Placing Rival Gang Members in Same Cell Not Per Se Unconstitutional by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals applied the harmless error test in finding that a district court’s late Rand summary judgment notice did not deprive a prisoner of substantial rights. Additionally, the appellate court held prison officials were …
a $900,000 lawsuit against Miller, Multnomah County and Aramark Correctional Services, which contracts with the jail. The suit claimed that Miller began making inappropriate comments shortly after she began
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the industry. Corizon’s competitors include Wexford Health Sources, ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices, NaphCare, CorrectCareSolutions and Centurion Managed Care – the latter being a joint venture
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