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prisoner phone use at the lockup, which is operated for the state DOC under contract by privateprison giant CoreCivic. Lawson urged the state to assume control of the troubled prison.
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ForensicMedicalGroup (CFMG) was first contracted to provide healthcare at MCJ in 1984. As far back as 2007, a consulting firm warned that detainee healthcare was “inadequate and result[ed
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Details Vague on Spending from San Diego Jail Detainee Welfare Fund by The commissary operated in San Diego County jails collected enough revenue from detainee purchases to pump up the balance in its Incarcerated Persons’ Welfare Fund (IPWF) to $11.1 million by June 30, 2024. But the office of Sheriff …
No Dismissal for San Diego Jail Medical Contractor from Suit Filed Over Detainee’s Withdrawal Death by On February 8, 2024, the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of California declined to dismiss all the claims brought by the family of a San Diego Jail detainee who died in custody …
) at a GEO Group lockup in El Centro, California. Injuries were reported to detainees and staff of the privateprison giant, but the number and extent were unclear. The prison was immediately placed
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$7 Million Settlement for Mentally Ill Detainee’s Death in California’s Santa Rita Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In a settlement agreement effective October 23, 2023, California’sAlameda County agreed to pay $7 million to the estate and progeny of a detainee who died while incarcerated at the county’s …
, Wellpath Holdings, PrimeCareMedical and ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices, as well as Corizon Health, which has now been split between new prison healthcare contractor YesCare and Tehum Care Services
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Four Dead in One Month in San Bernardino County Jails, $3,232,500 in Settlements Paid So Far by Douglas Ankney, Casey Bastian by Douglas Ankney and Casey J. Bastian A spate of jail deaths in California’s San Bernardino County dating back to 2017 has led to at least four legal settlements …
as CaliforniaForensicMedicalGroup. [See: PLN, June 2014, p.1.] A preliminary injunction issued in April 2015 was formalized four months later by the settlement agreement, imposing numerous requirements
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No Data to Prove Whether $600-Million California Parole Effort Worked by Results of a yearlong investigation released on July 10, 2023, found that a state-funded rehabilitation program for California parolees started in 2014—Specialized Treatment for Optimized Programming (STOP)—has cost taxpayers $600 million, with little evidence to prove it is working. …
down a suit by privateprison giant CoreCivic which sought to weaponize anti-defamation law against one of the company’s more vocal critics.
As previously reported by PLN, CoreCivic took exception
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v. JPAY, Inc., 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 34380 (C.D. Cal.).
Florida-based JPay is owned by Texas-based Securus Technologies and its parent, Aventiv Technologies, which in turn is owned by California-based
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the Supremacy Clause. Since ICE relies almost exclusively on privateprisons to house detainees, the Court said that “AB 32 would override the federal government’s decision to use privatecontractors
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Cain v. JPay, Inc., CA, Order Denying Dft's Motion to Compel, Prepaid Debit Card, 2023
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with privately operated detention facilities. DOJ is the parent agency of both the federal Bureau of Prisons, which uses no privateprisons, and the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), which uses nothing else. The order
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Ninth Circuit Overturns California Law Banning PrivatePrisons
by Kevin Bliss
by Kevin Bliss
On October 5, 2021, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck
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President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) signed an executive order in January 2021 prohibiting DOJ from renewing contracts for detention facilities with privateprison operators. That order is being challenged
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San Luis Obispo County Jail Conditions Violate Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On August 31, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division released a report detailing its investigation concerning the conditions inside San Luis Obispo County Jail. The findings of the report, conducted …
HRDC Case Sues JPay Over Fee-Heavy “Release Card” Debit Cards
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A lawsuit filed in a California federal court on September 15, 2021, accuses privateprison financier JPay, Inc. of violating
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