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Erie Correctional Institution (LECI) and the North Coast Correctional Treatment Facility, both run by Management and TrainingCorporation (MTC). State officials have admitted that previous efforts
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the taxpayers more.”
That is particularly true considering the Florida Department of Corrections has contracted with two for-profit companies to provide prisoner medical care: Corizon and WexfordHealthServices
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Florida Citizen Fights CCA over Public Records Request by Prison officials tend to frown on public records requests. In fact, employees at a Florida facility operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) were so ruffled by a citizen’s request for records that they called the cops. Joel Chandler, 47, has …
; the latter company was formed following the merger of PrisonHealthServices and Correctional Medical Services in June 2011.
In April 2012, Wexford was awarded a three-year, $349 million contract. This works
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Tennessee CCA Warden Denied Summary Judgment for Excessive Force
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A Tennessee federal court denied a privateprison warden summary judgment on an excessive force claim for assaulting
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Utah Private Corrections Center Employees under Federal Indictment for Evidence Tampering by A federal investigation resulted in criminal charges against two employees of a Salt Lake City, Utah corrections center for federal prisoners. A federal probe targeted Cornell Community Corrections Center, a private corporation that contracts to house prisoners who …
suspended without pay.
John Johnson, Jr., 60, a nurse formerly employed by Allegheny CorrectionalHealthServices at the Allegheny County Jail, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual contact with prisoners
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an Inter-Governmental Agreement with the federal government that allowed federal detainees to be housed at BCDC, which was operated by privateprison firm Cornell Corporation (which has since been acquired
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as benefiting Boca Raton, Florida-based GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest privateprison firm.
The backdoor proviso attempt failed, however, after the Florida Police Benevolent Association (PBA), which
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against his son. It is important to note that Thomas Wierdsma is a high ranking official in the GEO Group, Inc., a privateprison corporation ... with direct involvement with detention and deportation
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six of the ten years he spent behind bars at the South Central Correctional Center in Clifton, Tennessee, a privateprison operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).
Following his release he
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Electronic Monitoring: Some Causes for Concern by James Kilgore Electronic monitoring (EM) looms high on the list of alternatives to incarceration for corrections officials seeking solutions to overcrowded prisons and budget deficits. First used in 1983, today some 200,000 people in the United States wear some sort of electronic monitor, …
organization of Prison Legal News) and the ACLU of Hawaii, represents the Nunuha family.
“Privateprisons are known to have higher levels of violence due to understaffing and high staff turnover that result
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Jury Awards $13,000 in Tennessee CCA False Imprisonment Suit by A Tennessee federal court awarded $13,000 to Samuel Key for civil rights violations resulting from his false imprisonment. The case began in 1987, when Key was convicted and sentenced to prison in Georgia. During that time, a phony escape charge …
$1 Million Settlement in Oklahoma Jail Prisoner Wrongful Death Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In May 2011, Oklahoma County approved a $1 million settlement in a civil rights lawsuit involving a prisoner who was first denied his anti-seizure medication and then fatally beaten by guards after he had …
of Florida’s Blackwater River Correctional Institution (BRCI), which is operated by GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest privateprison firm. BRCI was opened at a time when there was excess bed space
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New Mexico Continues to Let Understaffed PrivatePrisons Slide on Most Contract Violations
by Matthew Clarke
by Matt Clarke
In September 2010, the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee
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Former Oregon Prison Official Faces Ethics Probe by In March 2011, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,000-a-year job as an assistant administrator for the Health Services Division of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC). Three days earlier he had been hired by Correctional Health Partners (CHP), a private medical …
be justified if there were no controversy concerning prison privatization. But there is a great deal of legitimate disagreement about the benefits of privatizingprisons. There is no evidence that privatized
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Videotaped Assault at Idaho CCA Prison Sparks FBI Investigation
by Mark Wilson
Guards at a privateprison in Idaho looked on, but did not intervene, as a prisoner was beaten into a coma
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