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that WCI’s practices may be exposing prisoners to hepatitis C, Massey asked for records related to the facility’s contract with PrisonHealthServices. He also requested information concerning testing
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Hawaii AG Study Confirms Ineffectiveness of Mainland PrivatePrisons
by Joe Watson
Academic researchers in Hawaii believe that exiling offenders to privateprisons thousands of miles away
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PrivatePrison Monopolies
by Christopher Petrella
As the late business historian Alfred Chandler, Jr. once said, the visible hand of the corporation has been of far greater importance
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46 California Prisoners Injured in Disturbance at CCA-run Oklahoma Facility by Widespread fighting among black and Hispanic California prisoners at the privately-operated North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre, Oklahoma last year left dozens of prisoners injured. The disturbance began shortly before noon on October 11, 2011 and was described by …
funding, citing potential losses of up to $3 million a month and stating, “it is our intent to cease the delivery of correctionalhealthservices.” [See: PLN, April 2012, p.24]. The Texas
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, a Pennsylvania state jury slapped PrisonHealthServices (PHS) with a $400,000 verdict for inadequate medical care of a prisoner at State Correctional Institution (SCI) Albion. The award was reduced to $312,000
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Unfortunately, like other privateprison medical care companies, Wexford has a poor track record in terms of placing profits over adequate treatment for prisoners. [See: PLN, June 2011, p.12; Dec. 2010, p.27; Nov
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of Walnut Grove in 1981. He was accused of sexually assaulting a female prisoner held at the Walnut Grove Transition Center (WGTC) operated by GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest privateprison company
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” work program.
“I didn’t go more than a month without a job,” said Guzman, who spent almost 20 months waiting, and working, inside Stewart while his immigration case was resolved.
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Ethics Complaint Against Former Oregon Prison Official Dismissed by As previously reported in PLN, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,020-per-year position with the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) in March 2011. He had been employed as an assistant administrator with the ODOC’s Health Services Division, and served on a …
Florida Town Rallies to Stop CCA Immigration Detention Facility by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Residents in a South Florida community near a proposed 1,500-bed privately-operated immigration detention center waged a successful yearlong opposition campaign that culminated in the cancellation of the project in June 2012. Corrections Corporation of …
in Balkwill’s possession months after he retired.
PHS’s lawsuit, filed in circuit court, claimed that Balkwill awarded a $9 million jail medical contract to ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices in August 2006
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at the Maine State Prison (MSP), where medical care was provided by Correctional Medical Services (CMS).
Leavitt, who had been taking HIV medications before he was incarcerated, claimed that the delay
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California Plans to End Out-of-State Prisoner Transfers by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 8, 2010, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) issued a press release announcing that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) intended to award a new contract to the company, “to manage up to …
PrivatePrison Industry Exerts Political Influence in Arizona
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Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and other state policymakers have been criticized for their close connections with privateprison
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Class-Action Settlement Cures Constitutional Violations at Pennsylvania Prison by A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit challenging conditions at Pennsylvania’s Northumberland County Prison (NCP). Since the suit was filed in February 2008 on behalf of 12 prisoners by the Lewisburg Prison Project, NCP officials had disputed claims that …
wrote, “My resolution could not be filed with any other company outside the privateprison industry because in no other industry do a company’s employees consistently engage in rape and sexual abuse
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medical contractor, PrimeCareMedical, as defendants. Shortly after Johnson’s arrest on February 22, 2007 for violating a restraining order against trying to contact his wife, he began complaining
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Corizon Healthcare, the result of combining PHS Correc-tions and Correctional Medical Services; MHM Services Inc.; ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices Inc.; Correct Care Solu-tions; the Birmingham, Alabama
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Class Certified in Lawsuit Challenging Conditions at CCA-operated Indiana Jail, but Case Dismissed on Summary Judgment by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An Indiana federal district court certified a class and allowed claims to proceed that challenged unsafe conditions, lack of medical privacy and an alleged incentive scheme that …
