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' or "Releasor"), Timothy B. Hatch, Sherry Phillips, the GEO Group, Inc. (hereinafter "GEO") and Corizon, LLC fka Corizon, Inc. (hereinafter known as "Corizon"). Corizon & GEO explicitly includes all employees ...
Publication • March 9, 2016
” (TIC) in the country and it is killing people. For example, in 2011, Luis Santana died in a psychiatric facility run by private corporation GEO, now Correct Care Solutions (CCS). He had been left ...
Article • March 7, 2016
non-psychotropic medications. He then went into the care of KCJ’s medical contractor, Conmed. It had a “bridge” policy that allowed continuation of psychotropic medications for 14 days ...
Article • March 7, 2016
Filed under: Aramark, Food, Jail Specific
Aramark to Provide Heart-Healthy Meals at San Francisco Jail by David Reutter The City of San Francisco negotiated a new contract with its food vendor, Aramark Correction Services, to provide ...
Dimora v. Northeast Ohio Corrections Center, OH, Order, Inmate Injury, 2016 Case: 4:14-cv-01221-BYP Doc #: 43 Filed: 03/04/16 1 of 9. PageID #: 386 PEARSON, J. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION JAMES DIMORA, Plaintiff, v. NORTHEAST OHIO CORRECTIONS CENTER, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) …
Buford v. Obaisi, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2016 Case: Case: 1:14-cv-01281 1:14-cv-01281 Document Document #: #: 76 62 Filed: Filed: 03/03/16 11/23/15 Page Page 1 1 of of 10 10 PageID PageID #:291 #:157 UNITED STATE DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JIMMIE L. BUFORD, ) ) Plaintiff, …
Brown v. Carter, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2016 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release ("Agreement"), is made and entered into by and between the Plaintiff, ANTHONY G. BROWN (hereinafter referred to as "Plaintiff'), and WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC. (hereinafter referred to as "Wexford" and collectively with Plaintiff …
Article • March 1, 2016
;-- a nonprofit -- claims that it gets just a trickle of referrals. Company President Melinda Sprinkle, a former KAP employee, said she started CMS in 2007. She is frustrated by her inability to get business from ...
individual and official capacity, CORRECT CARE SOLUTIONS, VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, and ANDREW P ALLITO, COMMISSIONER OF DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, in his individual and official capacity, Defendants ...
Article • February 29, 2016
technologies all bear the mark of a lumbering system designed to warehouse bodies and eliminate personal freedom while turning prisoners and their families into revenue streams for private contractors, prison ...
levels of violence, higher average recidivism rates, lack of public accountability and, in some cases, outright corruption and fraud. Such reporting has revealed common factors in the private prison ...
Settlements in St. Louis Jail Detainee’s Heroin Withdrawal Death by David Reutter The City of St. Louis, Missouri and Correctional Medical Services (CMS, now Corizon Health) both agreed ...
participant,” but kept sending women to his business because the private prison company “earned a kickback on wages paid to women in the work release program.” Kia “used women supplied ...
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Filed under: Private Prisons
and remove knives from prisoners, and they are sending those tax dollars instead to their corporate headquarters.” For-profit prison company Management and Training Corporation (MTC), which operates ...
Suicides, Poor Conditions at D.C. Jail Remain Critical Issues Despite Progress by Derek Gilna The February 8, 2015 suicide of a woman held at the Washington, D.C. Jail and a recent report that blasted the facility for “non-compliance with basic standards established by national corrections authorities” have once again focused …
Gonzalez v. Obaisi, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2016 Case: 1:13-cv-05766 Document #: 92 Filed: 02/25/16 Page 1 of 25 PageID #:588 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION OSWALDO GONZALEZ, Plaintiff, Case No. 1:13-cv-05766 v. Judge: DR. SALEH OBAISI, M.D.; DR. LATONYA WILLIAMS, P.A.; WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, …
Publication • February 25, 2016
Filed under: Private Prisons
Prison Privatization Testimony (AFSCME - Fillman), PA Legislature, 2007 TESTIMONY OF DAVID R. FILLMAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AFSCME COUNCIL 13 JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE HOUSE LABOR AND JUDICIARY COMMITTEES STATE AND COUNTY PRISON PRIVATIZATION IN PENNSYLVANIA OCTOBER 25, 2007 HARRISBURG, PA 2 Prison Privatization Testimony Thank you. My name is David …
Publication • February 25, 2016
Filed under: Private Prisons
brought copies of our publication 7 for the committee members. 8 story was on the Management & Training Corporation, 9 which is in the top-five private prison companies in 10 the country. 11 ...
Publication • February 25, 2016
Subcommittee on Crime Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives Since 1991, when we issued our earlier report on private prisons,1 various jurisdictions and levels of government have made or planned ...
Publication • February 25, 2016
Filed under: Private Prisons
of America has opened two new prisons in the region, in Idaho and Montana. Cornell Corrections was awarded a contract to build a private prison in Utah, but well-organized activists succeeded in stopping ...
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