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Fifth Circuit: Wyoming Prisoner May Sue Texas PrivatePrison Officials
by Matthew Clarke
by Matt Clarke
On June 16, 2008, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Wyoming state
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Prison Pays: Geo Corp Profits from Half-Way House Murder and Mayhem in Texas
by Craig Malisow
Despite a history of abuse and bad conditions, private-prison corporation GEO Group keeps getting
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. TransCor, a subsidiary of privateprison firm Corrections Corp. of America (CCA), transports prisoners nationwide.
TransCor guards Michael Jerome Edwards and David Jackson forced Schoenfeld to expose her
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Magistrate’s Recommendations Accepted in Texas Mental Health Case by On May 19, 2009, A U.S. Magistrate Judge filed his recommendations in a complaint brought by Miroslava Rodriguez-Grava (Rodriguez) and Iaias Vasquez Cisneros De Jesus (De Jesus) for their treatment while they were detained at the South Texas Detention Complex (STDC). …
Is Operation Streamline a Billion Dollar Give-away to the PrivatePrison Industry?
by Bob Libal
A new “green paper” released on July 19, 2010, entitled Operation Streamline: Drowning Justice
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for Management & TrainingCorporation, a privateprison firm, and Corplan Corrections, a prison design and development company. Now his son, state Rep. Eddie Lucio III, (D) has signed on to be a Corplan consultant
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(hereinafter
"Agreement'') is entered into by and between KINNEY COUNTY, TEXAS (hereinafter "County11)
and COMMUNITYEDUCATIONCENTERS, INC., (hereinafter called 11 0perator11) to become
effective on October 27
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Thou Shalt Not: Sexual Misconduct by Prison and Jail Chaplains by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Traditionally, the role of a chaplain in the correctional setting is to serve as a spiritual advisor to prisoners and help them meet the requirements of their religious faiths. Equally traditionally, chaplains have …
already resulted in a jury verdict of $47.5 million – one of the largest prisoner wrongful death awards in the nation.
Gregorio de la Rosa, Jr., 33, was incarcerated at a privateprison in Willacy County
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Detention Center, a 1,500-bed privateprison in Laredo owned and operated by the GEO Group, a Florida-based company formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections. The Rio Grande facility opened in October 2008
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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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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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Behind Montana Jail Fiasco: How PrivatePrison Developers Prey on Desperate Towns
by Justin Elliott
With the unraveling of the deal for the shadowy AmericanPrivatePoliceForce to take over
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the privateprison company.
According to LULAC’s national convention programs for 2005, 2006 and 2007, CCA was a Patron-level donor for each of those years. Patron-level means a donation of $10,000 or more
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Court Allows Deliberate Indifference Claim for Denial of Medication to Proceed by U.S. Magistrate Judge B. Janice Ellington has allowed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action to move beyond screening. The action, brought by a former Nueces County Jail prisoner, alleges that jail officials were deliberately indifferent in providing the …
as a consultant for Management and TrainingCorporation (MTC), CorPlan Corrections, Aguirre Inc., Hale Mills Corporation, TEDSI Infrastructure Group Inc. and Dannenbaum Engineering Corp., all of which are involved
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General’s office.
Rep. Oliveira sits on the House Corrections Committee, which considers legislation that affects privateprison companies. “Oliveira should have been conducting investigations
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., 2008 WL 3285764, *3 (S.D. Ga. Aug. 8, 2008)(holding
that even though the privateprison contractor CCA had contracted
with
the
federal
Bureau
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Prisons
to
operate
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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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PrivatePrison Company Cleans Up Texas Creek, Finally Gets Prisoners
by Matthew Clarke
by Matt Clarke
In July 2008, Louisiana-based privateprison company LCS Corrections Services agreed
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