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Report on Prison Privatization Plagued with Political Connections, Conflicts of Interest, Faulty Data

Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010

Filed under: Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Financing, Lobbying, Guards/Staff, ACA

of prisoners sent to for-profit facili-ties and privatize other aspects of the state’s prison system, was released in April 2010 on the heels of Governor Schwar-zenegger’s comments in favor of private prisons ...

Ninth Circuit: Federal Receiver May be Sued for Breach of Contract

Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010

Filed under: Private Contractors, Civil Procedure, Special Masters, Contractor Liability, Judicial Immunity

had breached a contract with Medical Development International (MDI), a Florida-based company that provided medical services at two CDCR prisons but did not get paid for much of its work. Responding ...

Ninth Circuit: 42 U.S.C. § 233(a) Does Not Immunize Public Health Service Employees from Bivens Constitutional Tort Claims

Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010

Filed under: Private Prisons, Prison Health Services, Federal Tort Claims Act, Contractor Liability

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 …

Prisoner Transport Guards Accused of Forcing Prisoner to Perform Sex Acts

Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Transport Companies, Criminal Prosecution

. Extradition. PLN has previously reported on the abysmal track record of private prisoner transport companies, including a disturbing number of cases involving rape and sexual abuse by transportation guards ...

Preventable Sacramento County Jail Death Costs Taxpayers $1.45 Million

Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010

Filed under: Correctional Health Services, Medical, Gastrointestinal, Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Correctional Health Services (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 ...

Medical Care Mismanaged at Orange County, California Jail

Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009

Filed under: Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors

Medical Care Mismanaged at Orange County, California Jail by Michael Brodheim A $36 million program designed to provide medical care to jail prisoners in Orange County, California is severely mismanaged, according to an internal performance audit. The audit found that the county Health Care Agency (HCA), which administers the jail’s …

Sexual Abuse by Prison and Jail Staff Proves Persistent, Pandemic

Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Cornell Corrections, GRW Corp., Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution

and Jacqueline Overturf, were being held at the Brush Correctional Facility, a private prison operated by GRW Corp., when they were sexually assaulted by prison guard Russell E. Rollison. They filed a lawsuit ...

Billionaire-Funded California Voter Initiative Triples Lifer Parole Denial Intervals, Imposes Restrictions on Parole Violators

Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009

Filed under: Financing, Crime/Demographics, Victims, Ex Post Facto, Parole, State Legislation

Billionaire-Funded California Voter Initiative Triples Lifer Parole Denial Intervals, Imposes Restrictions on Parole Violators by Billionaire-Funded California Voter Initiative Triples Lifer Parole Denial Intervals, Imposes Restrictions on Parole Violators In the November 2008 elections, California voters narrowly passed Proposition 9 by a 53 to 47% margin. Prop. 9 was a …

California County’s 2005 Purchase of Private Prison Still Clouded in Conflict of Interest Questions

Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009

Filed under: Financing, Marantha Private Corrections, Government Misconduct, News, State Legislation

California County’s 2005 Purchase of Private Prison Still Clouded in Conflict of Interest Questions by Marvin Mentor California County’s 2005 Purchase of Private Prison Still Clouded ...

Cornell Defrauded of $13 Million in Prison Construction Scam

Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009

Filed under: Private Prisons, Financing, Cornell Corrections, Criminal Prosecution

accused of defrauding private prison operator Cornell Corrections of California, Inc. out of $13 million in a prison construction scam. A federal grand jury handed down indictments that included 20 counts ...

TASER International’s Stock Shocked By $6.2 Million Damages Award

Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008

Filed under: Financing, Excessive Force, Stun Guns/Tasers, Damages, Product Liability, Police, Excessive Force (Police)

TASER International’s Stock Shocked By $6.2 Million Damages Award by John Dannenberg TASER International’s Stock Shocked By $6.2 Million Damages Award by John E. Dannenberg The stock of TASER International, Inc. tanked by 11% to $6.13 per share on June 9, 2008 when three days earlier a federal jury in …

State of California - Corrections Corporation of America Contract, 2008

Publication • 2008

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Cost of Prison Systems

State of California - Corrections Corporation of America Contract, 2008 STATE OF CALIFORNIA STANDARD AGREEMENT AMENDMENT STD. 213 A (Rev 6/03) ~ CHECK HERE IF ADDITIONAL PAGES ARE ATIACHED 287 Pag"s AGREEMENT NUMBER AMENDMENT NUMBER 5600000770 7 REGISTRATION NUMBER C07.247-7 1. eP 1046444 This Agreement 1s entered into between the …

Federal Healthcare Receiver Investigates Out-of-State Deaths of Transferred California Prisoners, but Does His Authority Follow Them?

Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

-tier program for healthcare delivery: the profit-driven substandard care typical of private prisons and the federal constitution-dictated standard of care provided under the Receiver. Recently-enacted ...

Privately Run Seal Beach, California Jail Closed Following Checkered Past

Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008

Filed under: Private Prisons, Correctional Systems Inc., Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Crime

across local headlines, Seal Beach, California officials shut down their privately-run jail on June 15, 2007. The city claimed that the jail?s for-profit contractor, Texas-based Correctional Systems, Inc ...

Los Angeles Jail Canteen Audit: Contractor Rakes In $640,213 Excess Profits

Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008

Filed under: Private Prisons, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Contractor Misconduct, Jail Misconduct

Los Angeles Jail Canteen Audit: Contractor Rakes In $640,213 Excess Profits by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Compass Group USA, Inc. doing business at the Los Angeles County Jail as Canteen Services (Canteen), was booked by the county auditor for extracting $640,213 in excess profits from its gross prisoner …

Problematic California Private Prison Sold to San Bernardino County

Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007

Filed under: Marantha Private Corrections, Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct

Problematic California Private Prison Sold to San Bernardino County by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In the continuing saga of a troubled private prison in Adelanto, California ...

Inadequate Medical Care Alleged at Alameda County, CA Jail – Four Prisoners Dead

Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007

Filed under: Private Prisons, Prison Health Services, Systemic Medical Neglect, Cardiovascular, Hepatitis, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

medical provider, Prison Health Services, has been the subject of numerous previous reports in PLN. [See, e.g.: PLN, Nov. 2006, p.1]. On September 4, 2006, three days after reporting to jail to serve a 26 ...

Corruption in Awarding California DOC Medical Contract Exposed

Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007

Filed under: Private Prisons, Medical Development International, Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect

Development International (MDI), a Florida-based firm that provides similar services to 27 federal Bureau of Prisons facilities. MDI's scheduling efforts reportedly reduced CDCR's medical specialist backlog ...

California DOC Guards Win Injunction to Stop Prisoner Transfers Out-Of-State; Transfers Continue While State Appeals

Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Overcrowding, Staffing, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Guards/Staff, Guard Unions

) worried that this was a bargaining tactic by Gov. Schwarzenegger in their contested labor contract negotiations: knuckle under or kiss your jobs goodbye. Out-of-state private prisons charge California less ...

California Contract Healthcare Management Firm Locked Out; Fees Withheld;

Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Private Contractors, Medical Expenses

healthcare, Robert Sillen, took umbrage with Florida-based private contractor Medical Development International (MDI) by withholding $2.6 million in fees and locking MDI out of two southern California prisons ...

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