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Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Task Force Linked to Harsh Sentencing Laws and Private Prison Firms Disbands Following Public Scrutiny, Boycott by A national campaign to shut down a quasi-governmental task force backed by powerful corporate interests, which has promoted harsher sentences, prison privatization and controversial “stand your ground” gun rights legislation, was successful thanks …
East Mississippi Prison Nightmare by Christopher Zoukis On May 30, 2013, the American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Poverty Law Center and law office of civil rights attorney Elizabeth Alexander filed an 83-page complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, seeking class-action relief for mentally ill …
How Actions by Oklahoma Governor’s Staff Led to Weakened State Justice Reforms by Clifton Adcock by Clifton Adcock, Oklahoma Watch* Behind-the-scenes moves by Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin’s senior staff members helped lead to a severe weakening of a program designed to cut the state’s high incarceration rates and save taxpayers …
Shareholder Resolutions Seek to Lower Phone Rates at Private Prisons by On November 26, 2013, shareholder resolutions were filed with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and The GEO Group, Inc. – the nation’s two largest for-profit prison companies; the resolutions seek to reduce the high cost of phone calls made …
GEO Group Pulls out of Mississippi Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Last year, the GEO Group – the nation’s second-largest for-profit prison company – announced that it was pulling out of its contracts to operate three Mississippi prisons. That development came shortly after a federal court announced …
J.U. V. GEO Group, NM, Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2013 Case 1:13-cv-00968-KBM-LAM Document 1 Filed 10/07/13 Page 1 of 24 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO J.U. and R.S., Plaintiffs, v. THE GEO GROUP, Inc.; CORIZON, Inc.; WARDEN ERASMO BRAVO, in his individual and official …
Brief • September 26, 2013
In re Municipal Corrections, GA, Notice of Filing Auction Transcript, private prison debtor assets, 2013 Case 13-50786-pwb Doc 358 Filed 09/26/13 Entered 09/26/13 09:14:39 Document Page 1 of 27 Desc Main UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION In re: Chapter 11 MUNICIPAL CORRECTIONS, LLC, …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
New Mexico Prison Doctor Fingered in Lawsuits by Two lawsuits filed in March 2013 seek compensatory and punitive damages against former prison physician Mark E. Walden, GEO Group, Corizon, wardens Erasmo Bravo and Timothy Hatch, and health administrator Sherry Phillips. The suits allege that numerous prisoners were fondled or received …
Former Mississippi Mayor Sent to Prison by A federal judge in Mississippi has sentenced William Grady Sims, 61, the former mayor of Walnut Grove who also served as warden of a privately-operated correctional facility, to 7 months in federal prison for telling a prisoner to lie to investigators about a …
Arizona Prison System Plagued by Politics, Privatization and Prisoner Deaths by Joe Watson By the time Jan Brewer replaced Janet Napolitano as Arizona’s governor in 2009, it had been 22 years since the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) built the first prison in the United States designed exclusively for permanent …
New Hampshire Cancels Private Prison Bids, but Bill Prohibiting Prison Privatization Fails to Pass by After the state of New Hampshire hired a consulting group last year to help evaluate bid proposals for the "construction, operation and potential privatization" of the state's entire prison system, it was determined that all …
Research Study Finding Benefits from Prison Privatization Funded by Private Prison Companies by In April 2013, two professors at Temple University in Philadelphia released a study, titled "Cost Analysis of Public and Contractor Operated Prisons," that alleged financial savings through prison privatization and equal or better performance by private prison …
U.S. Immigration Policy: Dysfunctional, Profitable and Resistant to Reform by Derek Gilna The nation's economy remains fragile, U.S. troops continue to fight a losing war in Afghanistan, North Korea has recently threatened a nuclear attack, and in March 2013 Congress and President Obama failed to reach a compromise to prevent …
Colorado Pays for Unneeded Private Prison Beds to Subsidize Local Jobs by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Even amid a declining prison population, Colorado is paying million of dollars to private prison contractors for unneeded cells in order to protect the economic base of small, rural communities that have …
Federal Court Enters Interim Fee Award Against BOP in FOIA Suit by The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) began 2013 with an adverse ruling from the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, after the BOP had spent several years refusing to disclose allegedly confidential information that was, in …
Delaware Court Decides Financial Dispute Involving Prison Healthcare Company by Derek Gilna A complaint brought in the Court of Chancery of Delaware to appraise the value of a prison healthcare company inadvertently shed light on the big business of providing contracted correctional services. Certain shareholders of Just Care, Inc., a …
Colbert v. State of NM, NM, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2013 FILED IN MY OFFICE DISTRICT COURT CLERK 4/5/2013 3:53:21 PM STEPHEN T. PACHECO FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO jc WILLIAM COLBERT, Plaintiff, D-101-CV-2013-00969 Case No. - - - - - - - - …
R.J. V. GEO Group, NM, Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2013 FILED IN MY OFFICE DISTRICT COURT CLERK 2/28/2013 3:00: 15 PM STEPHEN T. PACHECO STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT jam R.J., R.R., B.R., S.D., J.L.C., J.C., H.M., J.K., R.G., J.M, and M.Q., BY: .. …
Reintroducing the Private Prison Information Act: An Interview by Mel Motel Christopher Petrella and Alex Friedmann are leading a coalition of organizations urging U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) to reintroduce the Private Prison Information Act during the 113th Congress. I reached them both on the phone on a busy …
Supreme Court: No Bivens Actions for Federal Prisoners in Private Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that federal prisoners housed in privately-managed prisons may not file Bivens-style federal lawsuits against private prison employees alleging lack of medical care in …
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