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State of WA v. The GEO Group, WA, Complaint, Immigrant Detainee Wages, 2017 E-FILED IN COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE PIERCE COUNTY, WASHINGTON September 20 2017 9:34 AM KEVIN STOCK COUNTY CLERK 1 NO: 17-2-11422-2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR …
Mississippi Closes Troubled Former Youth Prison by Citing budgetary cuts, the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) finally closed the troubled, privately-operated Walnut Grove Correctional Facility (WGCF) on September 15, 2016. As previously reported in PLN, Walnut Grove had been under a federal consent decree since 2012 over allegations of guards …
PrivatePrison Companies’ Plan to License “Baby Jails” Fails in Texas Legislature
by Bob Libal
by Bob Libal
Legislation developed by privateprison corporation GEO Group that would have
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EEOC v. Geo Group, AZ, Consent Decree, Sexual Harassment, 2017 Case 2:15-cv-01909-SPL Document 81 Filed 08/24/17 Page 1 of 24 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 10 11 12 Plaintiff, vs. The …
Ninth Circuit Reinstates Arizona Prison Guards' Sexual Harassment Lawsuit against PrivatePrison Operator
by Lonnie Burton
by Lonnie Burton
On March 14, 2016, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court
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Grado v. GEO Group, NM, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2017 EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF UNION 8TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT UNION COUNTY NM FILED IN MY OFFICE 8/22/2017 3:30:36 PM BERNABE P. STRUCK DISTRICT COURT CLERK Rhonda Aragon GABRIEL H. GRADO, Plaintiff, vs. Case No. D-818-CV-2017-00028 …
CommunityEducationCenters then took over, but its run ended in April, when GEO purchased the company for $360 million. "As far as I've been aware, the transition has been very smooth," said Robert DiOrio
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instructed cm previous occasions that restraints were not to be removed
from inmates in administrative segregation
such as inmates Contrcras and Gonzaleswithout a
doctor's oider and authorization from
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Tellez v. GEO Grp, TX, Order, 2017 Case 5:15-cv-00465-RCL Document 87 Filed 08/01/17 Page 1 of 1 FILED AUG 0 12017 UNiTED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS CLERK. U.S. O$STRICT CLERK WESTERN ISTICT OF TEXAS BYxJ DEPUTY ) RAYMOND TELLEZ, ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) …
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Privateprisons are especially active in incarcerating undocumented immigrants, and ITPI argues that the banks financing for-profit detention facilities are “complicit with the privateprison
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. (alcohol monitoring), Protocol Criminal Justice, Inc. (electronic monitoring) and BI, Inc. (electronic monitoring).
GEO also recently acquired CommunityEducationCenters (CEC), a for-profit reentry
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to as “CCA/CoreCivic” in this document),
GEO Group, and Management & TrainingCorporation (MTC). Of these companies,
CCA/CoreCivic currently operates only in the United States, but the other two have expanded
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Cox v. GEO Group, NM, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2017 D-202-CV-2017-05349 FILED IN MY OFFICE DISTRICT COURT CLERK 7/20/2017 6:37:09 PM James A. Noel Dawna Jarvis STATE OF NEW MEXICO SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF BERNALILLO MATTHEW Cox, Plaintiffs, V. GEO GROUP, NEW MEXICO CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT, NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO …
GEO Group Acquires CEC in $360 Million Deal
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In an all-cash transaction that closed on April 6, 2017, privateprison firm the GEO Group, Inc. acquired New Jersey-based CommunityEducation
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announced its purchase of CommunityEducationCenters (CEC), which operates reentry and treatment facilities. GEO also owns BI, Inc., one of the largest providers of GPS monitoring.
In March 2016, Politico
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prison firm, is a good exemplar of the issues surrounding the regulation and reporting of corporate campaign contributions in Indiana.
The company, which is the largest privateprison operator in the world
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, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert
Lawrence Bryant (“Plaintiff” or “Releasor”), the GEO Group, Inc. (hereinafter
“GEO”) and Corizon, LLC fka Corizon, Inc. (hereinafter known as “Corizon
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Senators Emanuel Cleaver and Luis Gutierrez - Letter re PrivatePrison Campaign Contributions, 2017
EMANUEL CLEAVER, II
http: //WWW.HOUSE.GOV/CLEAVER
FIFTH DISTRICT, MISSOURI
TWITIER.COMIREPCLEAVER
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by corporations including GEO Group, Core Civic
(formerly Corrections Corporation of America), and
Management and TrainingCorporation.
According to BJS data, 21 of the states with privateprison contracts
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