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Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
Prison Realty Hires PR Firm by Nashville-based Prison Realty Trust, the parent company of Corrections Corp. of America (CCA), has hired a leading public relations firm to improve its image. In Sept. 1999 Prison Realty retained Los Angeles-based Sitrick & Co., which specializes in crisis management. Sitrick will handle Prison …
Wackenhut's Woes: Guard Killed in New Mexico Riot; Prisoners Exiled to Virginia Supermax by Alex Friedmann Previously, PLN has reported problems at the Lea County Corr. Facility in Hobbs, New Mexico, one of two prisons in the state operated by Wackenhut Corrections Corp. Violent incidents at the Hobbs facility have …
CSC Cancels Florida Juvenile Facility Contract by Correctional Services Corp. (CSC) announced Aug. 23, 1999 that it was withdrawing from an $8.7 million-a-year contract to operate the Pahokee Youth Development Center, a 350 bed Florida juvenile facility, 8 months before the contract is due to expire. The announcement came six …
Riots Rock CCA Prison in Oklahoma by In Nov. 1998 Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) opened the Diamondback Corr. Facility in Watonga, OK and filled it with prisoners from Indiana and Hawaii. According to a prisoner housed at the facility there was a great deal of tension between the two …
Trial Required in ADA Suit over HIV Medication by In the July, 1999, issue of PLN we reported McNally v. Prison Health Services, 28 F. Supp.2d 671 (D ME 1999) in which the court denied the defendants' motion to dismiss. The case involves David McNally, an HIV positive arrestee who, …
CCPOA Pimping in the California State Assembly by Dan Pens A self-proclaimed "whore" for the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) in July 1999 helped kill Attorney General Bill Lockyer's proposed legislation for forming a state-level prosecutorial unit to investigate alleged crimes by state prison guards. As it stands now, …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
Prison Realty Stock Plummets; Shareholders File Suit by Last May the price of shares in Prison Realty Trust Inc., the parent company of Corrections Corporation of America, fell almost 35% within a week after Prison Realty announced it would pay increased costs for building and marketing private prisons. Several investment …
Private Transportation Company Liable Under 42 USC § 1983 by Private Transportation Company Liable Under 42 USC § 1983 A federal district court in Colorado held that alleged sexual assaults committed by an employee of a private transportation company, under contract with the state Department of Corrections, were committed under …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
Go Directly to Jail: At the Academy in Alpharetta, Men Pay Big Bucks to Pretend They're in Prison by Dan Savage By Dan Savage Alpharetta, Georgia- I'm naked, and I'm not happy. In just under an hour, I've been subjected to two of three punishments I'd specifically asked to be …
FBI Investigates CCA-Run INS Center in New Jersey by A Corrections Corporation of America operated immigrant detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey is under investigation due to alleged misconduct by company employees. Federal officials confirmed on April 13, 1999 that the U.S. Dept. of Justice had requested the probe, which …
Missouri Proposes $2.2 Million Settlement by On June 25, 1999, the state of Missouri filed a proposed $2.2 million settlement in U.S. District Court that would dispose of 32 lawsuits filed in state and federal courts by 700 - 2,100 Missouri prisoners abused in Texas jails. The lawsuits stem partly …
New Mexico Riot Rooted in Religious Rights by On April 6, 1999, up to 400 prisoners at the Wackenhut-oper- ated Lea County Correctional Facility in Hobbs, New Mexico, rioted and ransacked the prison's kitchen and dining areas. Thirteen guards, including two state employees, and one prisoner were injured in the …
Prison Realty Board Member Settles Ethics Complaints by Prof. Charles W. Thomas, director of the Private Corrections Project at the University of Florida and a board member of Prison Realty Corp., has long been criticized for his close connections with the private prison companies he researches [see: "University professor shills …
Tennessee Supreme Court Upholds Private Prison Disciplinary Procedures by When the Tennessee legislature passed the Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986, codified at TCA § 41-24- 101 to 115, the following provision was included: "No contract for correctional services shall authorize, allow or imply a delegation of the authority or …
Private Prison Denied Wiretap Exception by A federal district court in Rhode Island held that a private jail is neither a "law enforcement" agency, nor a federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facility, that would shield it from liability under federal wiretapping statutes, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2520 (the Act). The court …
CCA Settles Youngstown Suit for $2.48 Million by by Alex Friedmann On March 1, 1999 the Corrections Corp. of America agreed to pay $1.65 million plus $803,000 in attorney fees and expenses to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by Washington, D.C. prisoners at the company's Northeast Ohio Corr. Center in …
No Qualified Immunity for Texas Sheriff and CCRI Guards Who Abused Missouri Prisoners by by Matthew Clarke Afederal district court in Texas has ruled that prisoners who were kicked, bitten by dogs, shocked, and subjected to a public strip and body cavity search by untrained, improperly supervised private guards during …
Private Prison Operators Enter Medical Care Market by Alex Friedmann As criminals receive longer sentences and serve a greater portion of them under threestrikes, truth-in-sentencing and mandatory minimum laws, the number of elderly prisoners with health problems has increased accordingly. Some consider this trend to be the result of a …
In Re Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, OH, Class Action Settlement, Excessive Force and Failure to Protect, 1999 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION IN RE NORTHEAST OHIO CORRECTIONAL CENTER : Case No. 4:97 CV 01995 (Polster, J.) : : CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT The Plaintiffs (as …
Private Prison Guard Is State Actor for § 1983 Purposes by Private Prison Guard is State Actor for § 1983 Purposes Afederal district court in New Mexico held that a guard employed by Corrections Corporation of America was a "state actor" acting under "color of state law" when he allegedly …
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