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Fight Brewing Between County Jails and Private Prisons in Kentucky by A bill introduced in the Kentucky legislature proposed removing approximately 3,500 Class D state prisoners currently held in county jails and transferring them to private prisons owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Opponents claimed the bill …
Mother Questions Her Son’s “Natural” Death in Colorado CCA Prison by Alan Prendergast On October 28, 2010, a 26-year-old prisoner named Terrell Griswold was found slumped over and unresponsive in his cell at the Bent County Correctional Facility, a private prison in southeastern Colorado. The official cause of death was …
Brief • February 15, 2012
Spurlock v. Townes, NM, Final Jury Instructions, CCA Guard Rapes Prisoners, 2012 Case 1:09-cv-00786-WJ-SMV Document 263 Filed 02/15/12 Page 1 of 39 Case 1:09-cv-00786-WJ-SMV Document 263 Filed 02/15/12 Page 2 of 39 Case 1:09-cv-00786-WJ-SMV Document 263 Filed 02/15/12 Page 3 of 39 Case 1:09-cv-00786-WJ-SMV Document 263 Filed 02/15/12 Page 4 …
Millington v. CCA, OK, Motion for Sanctions, Withholding Documents Prison Beating, 2012 Case 5:10-cv-00650-L Document 49 Filed 01/24/12 Page 1 of 15 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA (1) GLENDA MILLINGTON, as mother and next friend of Carl Stuckey, an incapacitated person, Plaintiff, v. …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Family of Prisoner Strangled in Oklahoma GEO Private Prison Awarded $6.5 Million by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In June 2011, the family members of an Oklahoma state prisoner who was murdered by his cellmate at a privately-operated GEO Group prison in Lawton, Oklahoma received a $6.5 million jury award. …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Florida, Arizona Sell and Lease Back Prisons and Other State Buildings by Like a junkie seeking money for his next fix, the cash-strapped state of Arizona has pawned its possessions – prisons, government office buildings and other real estate – in an effort to balance a budget shortfall, through lease …
The Societal Impact of the Prison Industrial Complex, or Incarceration for Fun and Profit—Mostly Profit by Alex Friedmann At the beginning of the 1980s there were no privately-operated adult correctional facilities in the United States. As of 2009, more than 129,300 state and federal prisoners were housed in for-profit lock-ups. …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
CMS Pays $275,000 in New York Prisoner’s Jail Death by Correctional Medical Services (CMS) has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle a lawsuit related to a prisoner’s death. The suit, which was filed in New York’s Monroe County Supreme Court and then removed to federal court, alleged negligence, medical malpractice …
Tennessee Court Again Orders CCA to Produce Records in PLN Public Records Case by On December 1, 2011, Chancellor Claudia C. Bonnyman of the Chancery Court of Davidson County, Tennessee issued a bench ruling directing Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm, to produce records in …
Publication • January 1, 2012
Public Health and Public Safety in the Commonwealths Prisons, PA Department of Corrections Healthcare, 2012 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS HEALTHCARE Public Health and Public Safety in the Commonwealth’s Prisons Executive Summary IN SEPTEMBER 2011, the Commonwealth requested bids to greatly expand the current private healthcare services within the Department of Corrections …
Cross v. Corrections Corporation of America, TN, Complaint, CCA guards allowed inmate assault, 2011 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0309 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0310 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0311
Tennessee: Incident Rates at CCA Facilities Higher Than at Public Prisons by According to an analysis of incidents involving assaults and disturbances at government-run and privately-managed prisons in Tennessee from January 2009 to June 2011, incident rates were consistently higher at the state’s three private prisons. Those were the findings …
Ohio ACLU, Other Organizations Release Reports on Prison Privatization by In April 2011 the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio (ACLU) released an expansive report entitled Prisons for Profit: A Look at Prison Privatization, which draws strongly on the experiences of other states with heavily-privatized prison systems. The report concludes …
Federal District Court Slams Bureau of Prisons in FOIA Suit by Brandon Sample U.S. Magistrate Judge Janice M. Stewart has denied summary judgment to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in a suit filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking copies of contracts between the BOP and private …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Planned GEO Prison in Adelanto, California Faces Sewage Hurdles by In January 2011, the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board called for a cease and desist order to prevent the City of Adelanto, California from establishing any new sewer connections. The board said that Adelanto’s water utility authority had created …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
CMS Nurses Disciplined in Kentucky Prisoner’s Death by The Kentucky Board of Nursing has disciplined two nurses who were on duty when a prisoner died one day after he was booked into the Fayette County Jail. Prisoner Dean Ferguson, 54, died of a pulmonary embolism on July 10, 2010 after …
Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Over Sexual Abuse of Female Detainees at CCA Facility in Texas by A guard at a privately-run immigration detention facility in Texas has pleaded guilty to sexually molesting numerous female immigration detainees while they were being transported to the bus station or airport for release. The facility, …
Jones v. Aguinaldo, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2011 Case: 1:10-cv-00313 Document #: 45 Filed: 11/21/11 Page 1 of 7 PageID #:232 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION KEDRON JONES, JR., Plaintiff, v. EVARISTO AGUINALDO, PARTHA GHOSH, LIPING ZHANG, AND WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, …
Clemons v. Corrections Corporation of America, TN, Complaint, CCA medical neglect pregnant inmate infant death, 2011 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0384 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0385 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0386 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0387 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0388 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0389 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0390 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0391 CCA-AF (6/2/14 …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Pennsylvania Councilman Takes Private Prison Company’s Donation, then Opposes Detention Center by A $3,000 campaign contribution from private prison firm GEO Group has put a spotlight on a county councilman in Pennsylvania. The contribution was made only days after Ron Angle, president of the Northampton County Council, urged his colleagues …
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