by Kevin Bliss
Harney County, Oregon expects an $800,000 budget shortfall in the next fiscal year. Nonunion employees and elected officials in the county are already being furloughed 10 hours a month to help make up existing shortfalls, the county jail fails to meet state law standards, and there are ...
by Kevin Bliss
Diana Sanchez gave birth to her son on July 31, 2019 at the Denver County Jail (DCJ), with no assistance from the medical staff. Guards and medical personnel watched from a remote location through a live video feed as Sanchez went through five hours of labor, ultimately ...
by Kevin Bliss
Former warden Jody Bradley depended on gang leaders at a privately-run Mississippi prison to maintain control of the facility.
That was one finding of a December 2018 internal audit by Management & Training Corporation (MTC) at the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility (WCCF), which the company operates for ...
by Kevin Bliss
Under a policy adopted in 2017 by the Comptroller of New York City, none of the city’s five pension funds has any investments in private prison operators due to concerns about investing public money in companies that profit from mass incarceration. Now that ban may also be ...
by David M. Reutter and Kevin Bliss
An activist investor organization has forced Boca Raton, Florida-based GEO Group, which operates or manages almost 75,000 for-profit detention facility beds across the U.S., to adopt a shareholder resolution requiring the company to issue a report on implementation of its human rights policy. ...
by Kevin Bliss
Ralph Caldwell, the father of Michael Kibbons, filed a lawsuit against St. Louis County, Missouri for deliberate indifference to his son’s mental health needs, resulting in his death. The suit alleged that jail staff failed to properly treat and house Kibbons in a manner consistent with his ...
by Kevin W. Bliss
The American Immigration Council (AIC) and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) filed a complaint on June 4, 2018, on behalf of detainees held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Denver Contract Detention Facility in Aurora, Colorado, (Aurora) for “dangerously inadequate medical and mental ...
by Kevin W. Bliss
In a precedent-setting case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that there is not a constitutionally protected property interest for civil service employees in New Jersey to remain on government rehire lists. In fact, the state Civil Servicc Commission has discretion ...
by Kevin Bliss
In February 2019, a second trial for prisoners accused of participating in a deadly 2017 riot at Delaware’s James T. Vaughn Correctional Center ended in not guilty verdicts.
Prisoners Abednego Baynes, 25, and Kevin Berry, 27, were acquitted of all charges. The jury hung on two counts ...
by Kevin Bliss
Lisa Roseanne Peace, a former nurse with Connections Community Support Services (CCSS), waited almost 20 minutes before calling 911 after finding prisoner James J. Daniels on the floor of the chow hall at the Delaware Sussex Community Corrections Center, unresponsive, incontinent and foaming at the mouth.
Daniels, ...
