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No Interlocutory Appeal for Good Faith Defense by The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the requirements of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) do not apply to properly characterized habeas corpus petitions under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2241, 2254, or 2255, finding that those actions are not …
. The company's shares have recently been hovering around $0.80 to $0.90 per share. That's a major plunge from the per share high in the mid-$40 range back in 1998 when privateprison company stocks were a hot
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by the end of 2001, and all prisoners there transferred to federal or privately operated prisons.
One of the resulting privateprisons has been contracted by the BOP for construction by Houston based
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PrivatePrison Woes in Ohio
by Gary Hunter
Less than two years after it opened, the second privately operated prison in the state of Ohio is already in trouble. CiviGenics, a privateprison
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PrivatePrison Corporation Can Be Sued in Bivens Action: Supreme Court Grants Review
by John E Dannenberg
by John E. Dannenberg
Holding that a private corporation acting under color
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Summary Judgment for Private Physician Reversed by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment to a private physician under contract with the county, holding that contract services provided to the county constituted state action. The court also held that qualified immunity was categorically …
the above plaintiffs. He said that Wexford has been replaced by Correctional Medical Services, another privateprison health care company, "which shows greater expertise in administration and even a worse
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Virginia DOC Cuts Ties with CMS
by Robert Durkee
Virginia DOC Cuts Ties With CMS
by Robert Durkee
After numerous allegations of inadequate medical care, pending prisoner lawsuits
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CCA Medical Cost-Saving Contract Unconstitutional by A Tennessee federal district judge as found an incentives contract between the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and a private doctor unconstitutional and must be stopped. The contract provided for financial incentives for the physician to reduce costs, which motivated him to reduce medical …
in the highprofit game of mass incarceration.
The myth of cost savings associated with privateprisons is busted to rubble by Dyer's unflinching analysis. He shows how, contrary to popular belief, privateprisons
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no comment on the jury's verdict or their message. It appears that juries readily draw a connection between profit driven privateprison companies and denial of basic services such as medical care
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prisoners to an outofstate, privateprison. In March of 1999, DOC transferred 254 prisoners to the Correctional Services Corporation run Crowley County Correctional Facility in Olney Springs Colorado [PLN
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Medical Services, (CMS), a privatecontractor providing medical services to CCCF prisoners, and numerous other defendants, alleging deliberate indifference to his need for treatment of a life threatening
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$9.5 Million Awarded in Prisoner Van Fire Death by $9.5 Million Awarded In Prisoner Van Fire Death In late February 2001, Kathryn Catalano received a $9.5 million jury award in a Tennessee U.S. District Court. She sued after her father died in an extradition van fire. Federal Extradition Agency (FEA) …
misconduct at the center also netted him 22 years in prison in a separate criminal action.
Allvest Inc., a subsidiary of CornellCorrections Inc., a privateprison company based in Houston, TX, which owns
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PrivatePrison Contractor Not Entitled to Immunity
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A State court of appeals in West Virginia has held that a privatecontractor of youth incarceration services is not entitled to immunity
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Warden Fired over Riot at New Mexico CCA Prison by Warden Fired Over Riot at New Mexico CCA Prison Corrections Corporation of America officials fired the warden and chief of security at the Torrence County (New Mexico) Detention Facility just three weeks after a November 11, 2000 prisoner uprising involving …
CCA Faulted in Texas Jail Escape by Staff shortages, unwatched video surveillance monitors, unlocked doors, untrained staff and a security alarm that was ignored by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) employees contributed to the August 27, 2000 escape from the Bartlett State Jail near Austin, Texas. Sixteen problems, the biggest …
Corrections Corporation of America Hit with $3 Million Abuse Verdict by Lonnie Burton On Dec 14, 2000, a federal jury in South Carolina awarded a 14-year-old boy more than $3 million in damages after finding Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) guilty of physically abusing the Charleston, SC teen-ager. In …
Texas Prisoner Raped By Wackenhut Guard Entitled To Discovery Protection by An appeals court in Texas has held that, under the Texas rape victims shield laws, Rule 412, 509(c)(1) and 510(b)(1), Texas Rules of Evidence, a prisoner who was raped by a guard and is suing Wackenhut may not be …
