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DC Circuit Reverses CCA/TransCor Non-Exhaustion Dismissal by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC) Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s lawsuit for failure to exhaust administrative remedies and for conceding summary judgment by failing to respond to the defendants’ summary judgment motion. The …
of America (CCA), which was the final hurdle before awarding CornellCorrections of Alaska (a subsidiary of CornellCorrections) a contract worth $19,446,000 to house up to 900 Alaskan prisoners in an out
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Indian Country Gets Stimulus Money ... to Build More Jails by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Department of Justice, through the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, has brought stimulus money to Indian reservations – awarding $224 million to build and renovate tribal jails. The funding …
asked the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to create CorrectionalHealthServices (CHS) to assume responsibility over the medical care needs of prisoners in the jail system. By the time Betty Adams
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University of Arizona Releases Report on Women Immigration Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In January 2009, the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SWIRW) and the Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program of the University of Arizona published a report on women held in Arizona immigration prisons. It …
and Jacqueline Overturf, were being held at the Brush Correctional Facility, a privateprison operated by GRWCorp., when they were sexually assaulted by prison guard Russell E. Rollison. They filed a lawsuit
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behind the contract terminations. What is unusual is that the contracts were canceled, as prison officials normally tolerate CMS’s substandard performance in order to save money; also, using a private
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tests and substance abuse treatment.
Further, the former head of mental health services for the Oklahoma Dept. of Corrections, Dr. Gail Williams, was hired by Correctional Medical Services (CMS) in 1994
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Flurry of Escapes Emphasizes Prisoners' Desperation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Last September produced a bumper crop of prison and jail escapes around the country, including a desperate escape by two Texas prisoners that resulted in the death of a guard, a car jacking and two shootouts. Plus a …
Taser Shareholders Accept $20 Million in Security Fraud Action Pending Court Approval by On August 9, 2006, Taser International, Inc. (Taser) proposed $20 million in company stock, cash and insurance proceeds to settle shareholder class action and derivative suits pending in the U.S. District Court for Arizona and derivative suits …
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At the time, NCCF was only housing 1,068 Indiana prisoners. Then a privateprison company in Texas cancelled its contract to hold 1,500 Arizona prisoners. With a prison
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CCA Pays $438,626 for Discriminatory Hiring Practices in Arizona
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Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest privateprison operator, has agreed to pay more than
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was pregnant.
CorrectionalHealthServices (CHS), the jail's contract medical provider, confirmed the pregnancy but declined Doe's immediate and repeated request to be transported to a hospital for an elective
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Denial of HIV Treatment Suit against BOP, CCA Dismissed by The plaintiff complained that he did not get adequate HIV treatment in the District of Columbia system because the Federal Bureau of Prisons failed to transfer his medical records (though they did send a piece of paper saying he was …
Summary Judgment Partly Reversed for Refusing Amended Complaint Filing by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an Arizona federal district court for refusing to allow a federal prisoner to file an amended complaint. Michael Satz, a prisoner in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), was …
also repeatedly complained of back pain, shortness of breath and chest pains in January and February. Her frequent complaints caused the privateprison's doctor to order psychiatric care for her. Every
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systems, money wiring, surveillance, security transport, fencing and prison medical packages. (Industry giant PrisonHealthServices brought in rescued owls and hawks to draw crowds. What was the connection
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into account the distance from Vermont when rejecting bids from EmeraldCorrectionManagement to use a Texas prison and CiviGenics to use a prison in Louisiana. However, the consideration was not to reduce
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director of the Arizona Department of Corrections (1995-2002) and as a consultant for the privateprison firm Advanced Correctional Management. According to Donna Hamm, founder and Executive Director
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Alaska Prisoners' Benefits Extended to Arizona by The Supreme Court of Alaska sustained a lower court's ruling which provisionally allowed Alaska prisoners to be transferred to an Arizona prison, required the Arizona facility to comply with Alaska's prison overcrowding settlement agreement, and found the Alaska prisoners' challenge to the process …
