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Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share
by Gary Hunter
For-profit privateprison operator Management & TrainingCorporation (MTC) has recently lost lucrative contracts
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State of California - Corrections Corporation of America Contract, 2007 STATE orQAUFORN,!\ STANB~"1!I.6.GREEMENT AME~ STD.213 A (Rev 6i'Y2t... D .IENT . CH}:CK HERE IF ADDITIONAL PAGES ARE ATTACHED 3 Pages I [AGREEMENTNUMBER C06.298 AMENDMENT NUMBER REGISTRATION NUMBER L 1. This Agreement is entered into between the State Agency and Contractor …
several letters to government officials regarding prison mismanagement by
WCC. Elliott was suspended without pay from the privateprison where he
was employed and was never allowed to return to work
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, 1999, CaliforniaForensicMedicalGroup (CFMG) and two
doctors agreed to pay a total of $725,000 to settle claims against them
arising from a prisoner's death due to untreated tonsilitis. CFMG
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Federal Court Orders California DOC to Pay $58 Million In Overdue Medical Bills by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On March 30, 2006, the U.S. District Court, N.D. Cal., ordered the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to pay its backlog of overdue medical subcontractors bills within 60 …
California County Jail Settles Overdue Prisoner Hospital Bills For $1.5 Million by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Settling a long-simmering dispute in billing rates for medical treatment of jail prisoners, San Diego County has agreed to pay $1.5 million to multiple hospitals for bills dating back over three years. …
California DOC Drug Program Funds Squandered by Marvin Mentor Five California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) employees, testifying under subpoena at a February 27, 2006 State Senate Government Oversight Committee hearing, revealed the use-it-or-lose-it practice of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars allotted to prisoner drug treatment programs on …
Audit: California PrivatePrison Contracting Tainted by Conflicts of Interest
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The California State Auditor reported in September 2005 that the California Department of Corrections
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Lawyers Bilk Cornell for Millions, San Francisco Jail Scammed
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In an attempt to recoup millions of dollars, privateprison operator Cornell Companies, Inc., has filed lawsuits against
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PrivatePrison Contractor Who Allegedly Diverted $1.6 Million in Telephone Revenues Sues California DOC
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PrivatePrison Contractor Who Allegedly Diverted $1.6 Million in Telephone
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to influence the state to expand its use of privateprisons, in November 2004 the Geo Group had hired former California Finance Director Donna Arduin ten days after she left her top-level job overseeing all
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Florida Awards Contracts Putting Sex Offenders on GPS Supervision; Other States to Follow by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has awarded three contracts for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite monitoring of sex offenders. The contracts come on the heels on legislation that allocated $3.9 million over a three-year period …
Higher Property Tax Collections Permit 25% Growth Of Los Angeles County Jail Capacity by by John E. Dannenberg A six percent increase in property tax collections due to soaring real estate prices will add an estimated $150 million to Los Angeles County coffers in the coming year. County supervisors have …
finance director, Donna Arduin.
Arduin insists she played no role in the California lease or GEO contract.
CDCR currently is awarding four privateprison contracts for a total of
1,017 beds.
Sources: San
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California State Auditor Criticizes Prison Outside-Hospital Contract Costs by In a detailed 98 page report to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature, the California State Auditor criticized the California Department of Corrections' (CDC) lax management of contract outside-hospital medical services for CDC prisoners. The July 27, 2004 report observed …
, to the extent he sued the corporation CCA, the case could not be brought as a Bivens (403 U.S. 388) action because Bivens does not lie for private corporate defendants (citing CorrectionalServicesCorp. v
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California Demands $1.6 Million In Diverted Telephone Revenues From PrivatePrison Contractor
by John E Dannenberg
California Demands $1.6 Million In Diverted Telephone Revenues
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charges were horrifically abused and murdered while falsely imprisoned by the U.S. in Iraq. See: Saleh v. TitanCorp., USDC SD CA, Case No. 04-CV-1143R (NLS). The suit was primarily filed under the Alien
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California PrivatePrison Uprisings Kill 2, Injure 66
by Marvin Mentor
Interracial prison riots occurred on October 27 and December 3, 2003 in two southern California privately-contracted
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