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that house more than 2000
prisoners and was not brought under control until the afternoon of February 1. GEO Group, Inc.,
the privateprison company that operates RCDC, reports that no injuries occurred during
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to for-profit privateprison firms such as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) and CornellCorrections, while at the same time provided those companies with a safety net
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CorrectionalServicesCorp. (later acquired by GEO Group) after a juvenile offender died as a result of gross medical neglect.
What is most amazing is that for years the state has failed to monitor the private
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prisoners incarcerated at the West Carroll Detention Center (WCDC) in Epps, Louisiana to 600. WCDC is owned and operated by EmeraldCorrectionalManagement.
Harris County, which includes the City of Houston
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Guard Aided Escape Results in Murder, Rape and Texas Federal Prisoner's Death Sentence by Federal prisoner Sherman Fields filed a direct appeal of his convictions and death sentence for murder and rape following his armed escape from the privately-operated McClennan County Detention Center (MCDC) in Waco, Texas. His convictions and …
was to immediately cancel the state’s contract with GEO Group, Inc., the privateprison contractor that operated the facility. GEO (formerly Wackenhut Corrections) had run the center since it opened in 1994. Over
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Flurry of Escapes Emphasizes Prisoners' Desperation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Last September produced a bumper crop of prison and jail escapes around the country, including a desperate escape by two Texas prisoners that resulted in the death of a guard, a car jacking and two shootouts. Plus a …
to LCS for construction of a 880-bunk privateprison.
Glower signed a $20,000 campaign ?loan? to Olivarez?s picked successor, former Chief Deputy Sheriff Jimmy Rodriguez, who won the primary but lost
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Scandal Rocks Texas Youth Commission; Youths Molested by School Supervisors by Gary Hunter During the 2006 elections, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ran television ads touting the capture of the state's 500th Internet child predator. Shortly after elected lawmakers convened in 2007 they went to work on a bill that …
CCA-Run Immigrant Family Detention Center in Texas Violates Settlement Conditions by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 9, 2007, a federal district court in Texas held that the conditions of confinement at a privately-run facility used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold families detained due to immigration …
Dallas, Texas, Jail Pays $950,000 for Neglecting Mentally Ill Prisoners by Michael Rigby On February 20, 2007, the Dallas County, Texas, Jail agreed to pay $950,000 for its negligent mistreatment of three mentally ill individuals, one of whom died, while imprisoned at the jail awaiting competency hearings. In 2004, James …
Texas GEO Prison Squalor Drives Idaho Prisoner to Suicide
by Matthew Clarke
by Matt Clarke
Seven months after arriving at the Dickens County Correctional Center (DCCC), a privateprison
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day, she was raped in retaliation for complaining. She had also alleged that the privatecontractor's (GEO) guards had "physically and psychologically beat her down," causing her to relapse into a state
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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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is bad enough. What's worse is that it is being done for profit, by the Corrections Corporation of America. CCA is the largest publicly traded privateprison operator in the U.S. CCA has close to 70
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environmental stuff. We?re mostly working on Corrections stuff.?
In 2003 Allen was chairman of the House Corrections Committee. Even then he was active in lobbying out-of-state for privateprison interests
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PrivatePrison Corporation Not Entitled to 11th Amendment or Sovereign Immunity
by
PrivatePrison Corporation Not Entitled to 11th Amendment or Sovereign
Immunity
The U.S. Northern
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Texas Suicide Suit Alleging Medical Malpractice Settles For $288,130 by On June 23, 1993, a lawsuit arising from the suicide death of a prisoner in the Jefferson County (Texas) Detention Center settled for $288,130. The suit had alleged that STAT Care, the jail's contract medical provider, failed to properly screen …
was employed as a guard at a Texas privateprison owned and
operated by CorrectionalServicesCorp. (CSC). He blew the whistle on other
guards for misconduct, for which he was fired. He sued in federal district
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Wackenhut is a State Actor for Section 1983 Liability by Wackenhut is a State Actor for Section 1983 Liability The Wackenhut Corporation and its employees are "state actors" under § 1983 with respect to their operation of a jail under contract with the state. The plaintiff's allegation that a nurse …
