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Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Ethics Complaint Against Former Oregon Prison Official Dismissed by As previously reported in PLN, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,020-per-year position with the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) in March 2011. He had been employed as an assistant administrator with the ODOC’s Health Services Division, and served on a …
Former Florida Sheriff Cleared in Theft Investigation and PHS Contract Fraud Suit by Following a two-year investigation and a jury verdict in a civil suit, a special prosecutor announced in June 2011 that criminal charges would not be forthcoming against Bill Balkwill, former sheriff of Sarasota County, Florida. The jury …
City of Philadelphia v. Corizon, PA, Settlement, PHS Affirmative Action Fraud for City Contracts, 2012
New Jersey Comptroller Criticizes, Questions Halfway House Contracts by Derek Gilna In a June 15, 2011 letter and separate audit report, the New Jersey State Comptroller’s office sharply criticized a number of issues related to the Department of Corrections’ (DOC) contracts with private halfway houses. Singled out for special attention …
Missouri Court Finds Prisoner Phone Contract Bidding Process Unfair by On November 30, 2011, a Missouri circuit court held that adding optional services to the state’s prisoner telephone contract without putting those services out for competitive bidding would render the contract void. The court found the current contract was valid, …
Article • July 15, 2012 • from PLN July, 2012
Another Oregon Prison Food Manager Accused of Misconduct by As previously reported in PLN, former Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) Food Services Administrator Farhad “Fred” Monem accepted over $1.2 million in bribes from several food vendors and then fled to his homeland of Iran, leaving his wife and the vendors …
Private Prison Industry Exerts Political Influence in Arizona by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and other state policymakers have been criticized for their close connections with private prison companies, including Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest for-profit prison firm. Brewer’s senior political advisor and 2010 campaign manager, Chuck Coughlin, …
Brief • July 11, 2012
Burdette et al v. Town of Harpersville, Al, Order, JCS private parole deptors prison, 2010 ELECTRONICALLY FILED 7/11/2012 3:26 PM CV-2010-900183.00 CIRCUIT COURT OF SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA MARY HARRIS, CLERK
Louisiana Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Corruption Charges by An October 5, 2011 federal Bill of Information charged Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish Sheriff Irvin F. “Jiff” Hingle, Jr., 59, with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and bribery concerning a program involving federal funds. Hingle, the sheriff of Plaquemines Parish since 1992, entered …
Pennsylvania Businessman Sentenced to 18 Months in “Kids for Cash” Kickback Scandal by In November 2011, a Pennsylvania U.S. District Court sentenced the former owner of two for-profit juvenile detention centers to 18 months in prison for his role in a kickback scheme that included two judges. The scandal, involving …
UNICOR Fraudsters Plead Guilty, Sentenced by A former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee and a former contractor were indicted and have pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud UNICOR, the prison industries arm of the BOP. The indictment, handed down by a grand jury in the Northern District of Florida, …
Court Finds Pennsylvania Jail’s Phone Bidding Process was Rigged; Contract Awarded to Another Company by The bidding process used to select the telephone contractor for Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) was rigged by an official previously accused of improperly influencing a prior phone contract at the jail. That was the …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Exec with GEO Group, which Operates Immigration Detention Facilities, Intimidates Immigrant In-Law by Thomas M. Wierdsma is the Senior Vice President for Project Development at The GEO Group, Inc., a Boca Raton, Florida-based company that, according to its 2010 annual report, operates “a broad range of correctional and detention facilities …
31,000 Criminal Cases Under Review After Detroit Crime Lab Closes by After the police crime lab in Detroit, Michigan was found to have provided faulty firearm ballistics evidence in criminal cases, the lab was closed in 2008. A subsequent review of around 31,000 firearm-related prosecutions was deemed “admittedly impossible work,” …
Jury Awards $13,000 in Tennessee CCA False Imprisonment Suit by A Tennessee federal court awarded $13,000 to Samuel Key for civil rights violations resulting from his false imprisonment. The case began in 1987, when Key was convicted and sentenced to prison in Georgia. During that time, a phony escape charge …
New Mexico Continues to Let Understaffed Private Prisons Slide on Most Contract Violations by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2010, the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee calculated that over a four-year period, former Governor Bill Richardson (D) failed to collect $18.6 million in penalties from private prison companies …
Former Oregon Prison Official Faces Ethics Probe by In March 2011, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,000-a-year job as an assistant administrator for the Health Services Division of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC). Three days earlier he had been hired by Correctional Health Partners (CHP), a private medical …
Article • February 15, 2012
PLN Exclusive! Exec with GEO Group Informs Daughter-in-Law He will Report Her to Immigration Authorities by PLN Exclusive! Exec with GEO Group, which Operates ICE Facilities, Informs Daughter-in-Law He will Report Her to Immigration Authorities Thomas M. Wierdsma is the Senior Vice President for Project Development at The GEO Group, …
$180,000 Settlement Reached in a False Imprisonment Suit against Private Security Contractor by A $180,000 settlement was reached in a suit against U.S. Protect, a private security corporation under federal contract to oversee security at the border crossing in San Ysidro, California. On November 3, 2006, Maria Quinones, who is …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Alaskan Private Prison Promoter Arrested in Mexico, Extradited to U.S. on Child Sexual Abuse Charges by In the 1980s, Bill Weimar became a rich man when his company, Allvest Corporation, owned and operated a chain of private halfway houses in Alaska. He heavily promoted building a private prison in Alaska, …
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