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Florida PrivatePrisons Seek $4 Million for Employee Raises
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
In a show of continued support for privately-operated prisons, the Florida legislature
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Center in Texas. The 550-bed facility is operated by privateprison firm GEO Group. Denise Tyler, founder of the Idaho Inmate Family Support Group, said her organization has received dozens of letters from
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Lawsuit by Washington AG Against GEO Group for Wage Violations Proceeds, Granted Class-Action Status by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In December 2017, a federal judge denied a motion by GEO Group, the private operator of the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington, to dismiss a lawsuit filed by …
' or "Releasor"), Mark Walden, The GEO
Group, Inc. (hereinafter "GEO") and Corizon, LLC fka Corizon, Inc. (hereinafter
known as "Corizon"). Corizon & GEO explicitly includes all employees and
independent
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Correctional Facility (GWHCF) in Thornton, Pennsylvania, operated at the time by privateprison company CommunityEducationCenters.
When she was in her late twenties, Janene Wallace was diagnosed with mental
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Letter: Senators Schatz, Gillibrand, Harris and Murray and Congressmen Nadler and Lee address Inspector General Michael Horowitz, BOP standards of employee conduct, re: Frank Lara, 2018
PrivatePrison Company Pays to Play; Federal Election Commission Fails to Act
by Christopher Zoukis
by Christopher Zoukis
GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison
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” or “Releasor”), Corizon, LLC and Dr.
Mark Walden (hereinafter collectively known as “Corizon”), and the GEO Group,
Inc., Warden Timothy Hatch and Warden Erasmo Bravo (hereinafter collectively
known as “GEO
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into a “tiered” treatment program, in which participants start out in a “total confinement facility” at twice the cost of the original program. The state awarded CorrectCareSolutions
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filed a federal civil rights suit arguing political contributions made by privateprison firms to state officials led to contracts with those companies that included a 98 percent occupancy rate at private
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NT v. Guadalupe County Correctional Facility, NM, Settlement, Sexual Assault, 2018 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE ("Agreement") is entered into by l\ 1 ("Plaintiff' or "Releasor"), Warden Timothy Hatch, Warden Johnny Johnson, Warden Gerald Morris, Michael Campos and The GEO Group, Inc. (hereinafter "GEO"). GEO …
, Washington was one of the first jurisdictions to ban privately-operated facilities; the county passed legislation in August 2017 that prohibits contracts between the county and privateprison firms to house
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) and Management & TrainingCorporation (MTC) spent at least $812,500 to lobby federal officials during the first quarter of 2018. And they’ve hired a cast of lobbyists who have passed through
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, which houses female ICE detainees. That facility is operated by privateprison company CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corp. of America). It was also the site of a November 2017 complaint filed by Laura
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On Sale Now: Prison Labor
by Sytonia Reid
by Sytonia Reid, Green American Magazine
Every day, incarcerated and detained people in both US government and privateprisons perform labor during
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M.M. V. Lea County Correctional Facility, NM, Settlement, Sexual Assault, 2018 SETTLEMENT AGREE1\1ENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE ("Agreement") is entereJ inlo by M M ("Plaintiff'' or "Rclcasor"), Jeff Wrigley, John Beaird, Marcario Arroyos anci The GEO Group, Inc. (hereinafter "GEO"). GEO explicitly includes the aforementioned Jeff …
– according to Pablo Paez, a spokesman for the GEO Group, a privateprison firm. “The ICE Processing Centers operated by our company are very different than local jails and prison facilities
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by public officials that greeted the opening of NWDC in 2000. GEO acquired the facility in a 2005 takeover of CorrectionalServicesCorp. (CSC), the detention center’s original privatecontractor
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privateprison companies,
CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA) and GEO Group, are
actively pushing governments to consider the use of private financing to build new facilities
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Martinez v. The Geo Group, CA, Complaint, Constitutional Rights Violations for Refugees, 2018 Case 5:18-cv-01125-R-GJS Document 1 Filed 05/25/18 Page 1 of 26 Page ID #:1 1 2 3 4 5 Rachel Steinback, SBN 310700 LAW OFFICE OF RACHEL STEINBACK P.O. Box 291253 Los Angeles, CA 90029 (t) 213-537-5370 (f) …
