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Former CCA Captain and Texas Probation Officer Pleads Guilty by On October 25, 2001, Jason Driskell, 27, a former captain at the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) operated Whiteville Correctional Facility (WCF) in Tennessee, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges in federal court. Driskell admitted that in 1999 he …
Wisconsin Medical Care Substandard, Even for Prisoners by Gary Hunter Michelle Greer had asthma, the operative word being had past tense. Her asthma no longer exists because Michelle Greer is dead. On February 29, 2000, at the Taycheedah Correctional Institution, she died of an asthma attack, suffocated by the apathy …
23 Escape from Wackenhut Prison in Caribbean by Gary Hunter 23 Escape From Wackenhut Prison in Caribbean by Gary Hunter A rash of escapes have fueled investigations into negligence and possible corruption at a Wackenhut prison. In less than two months, 23 prisoners have escaped from Curacao's Koraal Specht prison …
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
Wackenhut Searches for New Business by Wackenhut Searches For New Business In the 1990s, states couldn't build prisons fast enough. To keep up with the ever-increasing number of prisoners, many states turned to private prison companies like Wackenhut Corrections, Corrections Corporation of America, and Cornell Corrections. But the prison-building boom …
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
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U.S. Supreme Court Holds Private Prison Corporations Immune from Bivens Suit by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly construed Bivens actions suing private federal prison contractors to be available only against their individual prison employees, and not the parent corporations. …
Idaho's Prison Labor Scandal by Silja JA Talvi by Silja J.A. Talvi Over the past decade, Idaho's state prison system has been rocked by a steady stream of scandals ranging from the sexual abuse of prisoners to the violation of prisoners' First Amendment rights. But nothing has shaken the Idaho …
CCA Settles New Mexico "Failure To Protect" Suit For $41,885 by CCA Settles New Mexico "Failure To Protect" Suit For $41,885 In February 2001, representatives for the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) agreed to settle a prisoner lawsuit for $41,885. Marco Lopez filed the suit in a federal district court …
Indiana Prisoners Riot in CCA Prison by On July 6, 2001, hundreds of Indiana state prisoners held at the Otter Creek Correctional Complex in Wheelwright, Kentucky, rioted. The prison is owned and operated by the private, for profit, Corrections Corporation of America. The riot lasted nine hours and involved prisoners …
Colorado Restraint Board Death Case Settled by Bill Trine by Bill Trine, esq. A§ 1983 civil rights lawsuit and medical/healthcare negligence lawsuit was brought by the mother of 54 year old Michael Lewis, who died on May 7, 1998, after being placed on a "restrainer board" while incarcerated as a …
Article • January 15, 2002 • from PLN January, 2002
Private Prison Lobbying Group Founded by Ronald Young A group of private prison has formed an alliance to promote the growth of the private prison industry and to further develop prisoners as a marketable commodity. Among the founding members of the Association of Private Correctional and Treatment Organizations (APTCO) are …
Article • January 15, 2002 • from PLN January, 2002
Corrections Corporation of America Announces Closing of Youngstown Prison by Ronald Young Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) announced it would close its Youngstown, Ohio prison on August 18, 2001. The shutdown means the loss of more than 500 jobs. So much for the recession-proof industry. The 2,016-bed Northeast Ohio Correctional …
CCA Guard is "Public Official" Under Bribery Statute by CCA Guard is "Public Official" Under Bribery Statute The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a prison guard's bribery conviction, finding that he was a "public official" for purposes of the federal bribery statute. Shannon Thomas was employed as a guard …
Prisoners Stage Sit Down at CCA Run New Mexico Prison by Gary Hunter Over 650 prisoners engaged in an apparently spontaneous protest at a Federal prison in New Mexico. On Monday, April 13, 2001, prisoners at the Cibola County Correctional Center congregated in the recreation yard and refused to leave. …
Arizona CCA Prison Found 'In Turmoil' by Ronald Young Hawaii officials found a prison "in turmoil" while inspecting a Florence, Arizona prison where about 560 Hawaii prisoners are being warehoused. The prison is operated by Nashville based Corrections Corporation of America. An inspection of the prison conducted in April 2001 …
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Staff Shortage in Nation's Prisons by Gary Hunter Across the nation, states are plagued by a shortage of prison guards. A decade of building prisons has created an industry that employs more people than General Electric, and costs taxpayers in excess of $40 billion a year. To fill the shortage …
DC Prison Guards Smuggled Cash, Pagers by Ten Washington, D.C., prison guards were charged with conspiracy to smuggle cash and twoway pagers to prisoners in federal indictments unsealed April 31, 2001. The guards, nine of whom work for Corrections Corporation of America, a private company operating the Correctional Treatment Facility …
Mississippi Taxpayers Fund Welfare Payments to Private Prisons by Ronald Young Mississippi Taxpayers Fund Welfare Payments To Private Prisons by Ronald A. Young Mississippi taxpayers will pay about $6 million a year to private and regional prisons for "ghost inmates" under a bill the legislature approved on March 26, 2001. …
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
The Prison Payoff: The Role of Politics & Private Prisons in the Incarceration Boom by by Brigette Sarabi and Edwin Bender The popularity of the term "prison-industrial complex" in recent years, and especially since the groundbreaking Critical Resistance conference in Berkeley in September 1998, has produced a few critics who …
CCA Gets Tangled in Financial Quagmire by Ronald Young CCA Gets Tangled In Financial Quagmire Corrections Corporation of America said it is contesting an $8.1 million request for payment from Merrill Lynch & Company related to its hiring of the investment firm in late 1999 for advice on a company …
Environmental Concerns Halt Construction of Pennsylvania Prison by Ronald Young Environmental Concerns Halt Construction Of Pennsylvania Prison The wretched and overcrowded conditions at Washington, D.C.'s Lorton Correctional Complex have resulted in Congress giving the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) responsibility for housing all D.C. prisoners. Lorton, located in Fairfax, VA, …
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