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worked with Dominion [the very idea of a prisoner-broker boggles the imagination!!] to put warm Utah and Missouri bodies in the jail, and have found another privatecontractor, Dove Development Corp
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More Trouble in Texas Rent-A-Jails by Bryon W, Ferguson by Bryon W. Ferguson Hawaii prisoner Larry Earl Pagan decided he'd had enough of Texas hospitality. Pagan, shanghaied from a Hawaii state prison [See: "Kidnapping and Extortion Texas Style" in the Feb '96 PLN], escaped in February from the Newton County …
PrivatePrisons Get Qualified Immunity
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As the number of privately run, for profit, prisons grows, so too will litigation involving them. There is little case law involving privateprisons
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, such as Drexel Burnham Lambert, offered to underwrite the development schemes by selling high-yield "junk munis" to finance construction.
The "market" looked solid. In a 1989 press release, N-Group Securities
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NC Prisoners Riot in Tennessee
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On October 28, 1995, more than 100 North Carolina prisoners at the Corrections Corporation of America owned privateprison in Mason, TN rioted, demanding
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they were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs thus violating his eighth amendment rights, were employees of a company called Correctional Medical Systems (CMS). The district court granted
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Detention Center [a privateprison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America] in Florence, AZ, supposedly to ease overcrowding and avoid fines levied by the court for violating population caps
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INS Detainees Trash PrivatePrison
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On June 18, 1995, some 300 im migrants being held at the privately-run Esmor Immigration Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, chased out
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Diabetic Sues for Meals by Prisoners with medical conditions are entitled to special diets if needed to avoid illness. Robert Taylor is a diabetic and an Illinois state prisoner. His medical condition requires that he receive a special diet to insure that he receives the proper amount of sugars and …
is WexfordHealthServices, Inc. Their home office address is 4500 PGA Blvd. Suite 302, Palm Beach, FL 33418. It is rumored that they provided services in Alabama ten years ago and were kicked out. Besides
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Prisoner Raped by Custodians by A federal woman prisoner being transported from the Danbury prison in Connecticut to one in Texas was sexually assaulted by the owner of Fugitive One Transport, Arnold Faulhaber, and a company guard, Joseph Jackson. Both suspects were arrested on October 8, 1994, and charged by …
days later as a result of his injuries.
Loretta Cherry, Cherry's wife, filed suit against jail officials and PrisonHealthServices (PHS), a Delaware corporation which was contracted to provide medical
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Medical Claims Standards Discussed
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Ronald Brewer is an Iowa state prisoner. He suffers from coronary artery disease. Employees of Correctional Medical Services (CMS), a contractor
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Detainees Have Right to be Vermin Free by Two federal pretrial detainees housed under contract in the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) in Pennsylvania sued jail officials for a wide variety of ailments affecting jail prisoners. Among the issues they filed suit on were: inadequate ventilation, extreme temperatures, excessive noise, use …
of $10,000 against the jail warden, $1,000 against the jail nurse and $60,000 against the jail's medical services contractor, CMS. The district court granted judgement notwithstanding the verdict
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that the running of existing prisons could be contracted out.
As usual, the private companies competing for the market in privateprisons are linked very close to the Conservative Party and to ex-civil servants
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US Marshals Liable for Beating by Fred Sandoval is a federal prisoner. While being transported to a court hearing the Marshals Service placed him in a private jail run by the Wackenhut corporation, contracted to the US government. A Wackenhut guard antagonized another prisoner who, thinking Sandoval was the culprit, …
Minn. Prison Signs Contract for Puerto Rican Inmates by Minn. Prison signs Contract for Puerto Rican Inmates St. Paul, Minn. - about 500 prisoners from Puerto Rico will come to Minnesota as early as this month under a deal that finally will fill a privately operated prison in Appleton built …
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It is from within this context that we examine the privatization question. It should be clear from the foregoing that privatizingprisons would in no way diminish the fundamental nature of these institutions
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place immediately. The private company providing medical services to the prison, HealthManagementAssociates (HMA), repeatedly put off the surgery until August, creating serious health problems
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