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Sweetheart Deal Nets GEO Group $15 Million Payout from ICE for Haitian Deportation Flights

Loaded on May 1, 2022 by Ashleigh Dye published in Prison Legal News May, 2022, page 50

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Enforcement of Immigration Laws. Locations: Haiti, Texas.

by Ashleigh Dye

In September 2021, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paid more than $15 million to private prison operator GEO Group for deportation flights to repatriate thousands of Haitian migrants. The contract covered 44 charter flights from Texas to Haiti over a two-week time period, followed by another ...

Extreme Sentences for Women in the U.S.: An Overview

Loaded on April 1, 2022 by Ashleigh Dye published in Prison Legal News April, 2022, page 16

Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row. Location: United States of America.

by Ashleigh Dye

On January 14, 2022, Texas 138th District Court Judge Gabriela Garcia set an execution date for Melissa Lucio: April 27, 2022. That is when the 53-year-old will face death for her 2008 conviction of murdering her two-year-old daughter, a charge she still denies. It will also be ...

Virginia DOC Terminates Contract with Armor Correctional Healthcare

Loaded on March 1, 2022 by Ashleigh Dye published in Prison Legal News March, 2022, page 14

Filed under: Armor Correctional Health Services, Inadequate Health Care Facilities. Location: Virginia.

Plans to de-privatize prisoner healthcare

by Ashleigh Dye

On December 11, 2021, the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) announced that the state Supreme Court had denied an Emergency Motion to Stay and Petition for Review filed by Armor Correctional Health, the private contractor whose termination DOC announced the previous July. ...