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Oklahoma Courts Collecting Fines, Costs at Expense of Justice by Oklahoma judges are pushing for larger fines imposed on criminal defendants to compensate for a shortfall in courthouse budgets. The downturn in the economy has affected almost everyone, and the courts are no exception. Judges in Oklahoma have seen a …
in Texas and totaling 1,018 beds, went to competitor Management and TrainingCorporation. And on October 9, 2008, after CCA terminated its contract to operate the 1,150-bed Bay County Jail in Panama City
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Ninth Circuit: 42 U.S.C. § 233(a) Does Not Immunize Public Health Service Employees from Bivens Constitutional Tort Claims by John Dannenberg Ninth Circuit: 42 U.S.C. § 233(a) Does Not Immunize Public Health Service Employees from Bivens Constitutional Tort Claims by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals …
Crisis in Reverse: Counties Struggle with Dwindling Jail Populations by Gary Hunter Morgan County, Missouri was in dire financial straits before contracting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house immigration detainees at the county’s jail. For a while things were great – Sheriff Jim Petty replaced his worn-out …
Florida Jail Prisoner Paralyzed by MRSA Sues PrisonHealthServices
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When Brett A. Fields entered Florida’s Lee County Jail to be booked on charges of criminal mischief, violating
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Guards Suspended, Fired in Prostitution Probe at CCA-Run D.C. Jail by In June 2009, a District of Columbia jail sergeant and two lieutenants were placed on paid leave during an investigation into allegations that the sergeant paid a pimp to have sex with a jailed prostitute. One of the lieutenants …
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 …
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PLN has previously reported on the abysmal track record of privateprisonertransportcompanies, including a disturbing number of cases involving rape and sexual abuse by transportation guards
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of an Idaho state prisoner who was driven to suicide by squalid conditions at a GEO Group-run privateprison in Texas, where he had been transferred. The IDOC agreed to pay the prisoner’s estate $100,000
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the defendant: PrisonHealthServices/Dr. Robbins $80,000; MHM Correctional Services/Dr. McGinn $370,000; former KCF Warden Arnold Holt $300,000. The estate was represented by Southern Center for Human Rights
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Shrinking Budgets Force States to Cut Corrections Spending by Bob Williams In a July 2009 report funded by the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States, author Christine S. Scott-Hayward examines how shrinking budgets are impacting state corrections policies and practices. The story is in the …
GEO Group Buys Just Care For $40 Million
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Geo Group, Inc., one of the country’s largest privateprison and detention operators, has agreed to acquire Just Care. Just Care operates a 354
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Piloting the miniature caravan was Michael Hilton, aka Miodrag Dokovich, aka “Captain Michael,” the Montenegro-born owner of AmericanPrivatePoliceForce, a Santa Ana, California-based company which claimed
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CorrectionalHealthServices (CHS) to provide medical treatment of questionable quality.
Only days after being booked into SCMJ on a cocaine possession charge on June 7, 2006, William Francis Sams, 27, began
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Three Years Later, CMS Still Fails to Meet Medical Standards in Delaware
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by David M. Reutter
Despite federal oversight of its prison medical care, Delaware “continues
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and reporting $1.6 billion in revenue for 2008), spent millions of dollars successfully lobbying against two pieces of federal legislation: the Public Safety Act, which would have outlawed privateprisons
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company. It was so cruel, and he died sick and afraid.”
PhysiciansNetworkAssociation (PNA) of Lubbock, Texas was contracted to provide medical services at RCDC, at a cost of $6.03 per detainee per day
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prisons conducted by Washington State University graduate student Shawn Genter found that in states with privateprisons, new prisons impeded economic growth. Genter suggested that prisons impede employment
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largest privateprison firm, had settled a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Kansas that raised claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) on behalf of current and former CCA employees
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Prison Video Visitation Expands into For-Profit Market by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Businesses seeking to profit from the exponential expansion of our nation’s prison population are now turning to visitation. Florida-based JPay is implementing its “video-conference visitation” in Indiana’s prison system, while other companies, such as einmate.com, are …
