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Audit Reveals Problems with Maryland’s New Prisoner Health Care System by Michael Rigby Audit Reveals Problems with Maryland's New Prisoner Health Care System by Michael Rigby Maryland's new prisoner health care program remained understaffed in 2006, and the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) has yet to …
San Antonio Sheriff Pleads No Contest to Corruption Charges, Resigns by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In August 2007, Bexar County, Texas Sheriff Ralph Lopez, 71, was indicted on three felony counts involving corruption. Lopez tendered his resignation on September 1, 2007, and two days later pleaded no contest to …
Factor 8: the Arkansas Prison Blood Mining Scandal Movie review and Director Interview by Brandon Eng Filmmaker Kelly Duda’s first documentary, Factor 8: the Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, chronicles the decades of abuse towards prisoners and patients from blood mining in search of profits. Traveling back to his home state …
Who’s Monitoring Prison Medical Contract Requirements in New Jersey? No One by David Reutter Who's Monitoring Prison Medical Contract Requirements in New Jersey? No One by David Reutter PLN subscribers often read reports about the effects of privatized prisoner health care and the spread of privatization to prison and jail …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Spectrum Health Systems Pays Massachusetts $7.5 Million for Fraud in Concert with Civigenics by To settle charges that it misused state money, Spectrum Health Systems, Inc. has agreed to pay the State of Massachusetts $7.5 million. Spectrum is a nonprofit organization that provides treatment for substance abusers; the settlement was …
Los Angeles Jail Canteen Audit: Contractor Rakes In $640,213 Excess Profits by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Compass Group USA, Inc. doing business at the Los Angeles County Jail as Canteen Services (Canteen), was booked by the county auditor for extracting $640,213 in excess profits from its gross prisoner …
No Criminal Wrongdoing Found in Overpayments to Florida Private Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In May 2007 the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) issued a 22-page report which found that $12.7 million in overpayments to the state's private prison contractors did not result from an intent …
Former Illinois DOC Director, Former Prisoner Advocate, Others Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges by The former Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) was indicted by a federal grand jury in July 2007 on charges of taking $50,000 in kickbacks from health care vendors that received state prison contracts. …
Dallas, Texas, Jail Pays $950,000 for Neglecting Mentally Ill Prisoners by Michael Rigby On February 20, 2007, the Dallas County, Texas, Jail agreed to pay $950,000 for its negligent mistreatment of three mentally ill individuals, one of whom died, while imprisoned at the jail awaiting competency hearings. In 2004, James …
Problematic California Private Prison Sold to San Bernardino County by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In the continuing saga of a troubled private prison in Adelanto, California, the facility was sold to the County of San Bernardino for $31.2 million in February 2006. However, controversies haunted the county for …
“Please Rip Us Off” Florida Officials Tell Private Prison Companies by David Reutter "Please Rip Us Off" Florida Officials Tell Private Prison Companies by David M. Reutter Despite having ordered a criminal investigation into its private prison contractors, the Florida Legislature and Governor Charlie Crist have enacted legislation that specifies …
California Inspector General: $1 Billion In DOC Drug Treatment Program “A Complete Waste Of Money” by Marvin Mentor California Inspector General: $1 Billion In DOC Drug Treatment Program "A Complete Waste Of Money" by Marvin Mentor California's Inspector General Matthew Cate issued a scathing 52-page report in February 2007 which …
PHS Fails Benchmarks In NYC Jail Medical Contract; Fined $250,000 by Prison Health Services (PHS), nearing the end of its three-year $359.6 million contract to provide medical, dental, mental health and pharmaceutical services to ten of the eleven New York City jails, was audited by the State Comptroller's Office in …
Corruption in Awarding California DOC Medical Contract Exposed by Marvin Mentor More details have surfaced in a conflict-of-interest scandal involving two California gubernatorial appointees involved in a $26 million no-bid contract awarded by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for medical scheduling services. PLN previously reported that the …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Texas Pays $250,000 for Lingering Death of Teen Prisoner by Michael Rigby In November 2006 the State of Texas paid $250,000 to settle with the family of Charles Billops, Jr., a teenager who died from an undiagnosed brain abscess caused by a sinus infection while imprisoned in 2003. The settlement …
Psych Evaluations Questioned Following D.C. Jail Suicides by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The methods used for psychological evaluation and housing of prisoners at the Washington, D.C. Jail are being questioned after two prisoners committed suicide within a three-month period. Alicia Edwards, 32, had a history of mental illness …
Brief • September 18, 2007
Corrections Corporation of America v. State of New Mexico, NM, Opinion, court denies CCA tax refunds, 2007 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO Opinion Number: Filing Date: September 18, 2007 NO. 26,246 CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA OF TENNESSEE, INC., and CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC., Plaintiffs-Appellants, …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
California DOC Finally Discloses Some Records In $4.1 Billion Of Public Contracts by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Four years after California?s Department of General Services (DGS) ordered the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to publicly post details on $4.1 billion worth of contracts, CDCR complied in late …
California Contract Healthcare Management Firm Locked Out; Fees Withheld; by John Dannenberg State Officials Resign by John E. Dannenberg California?s federal receiver over prison healthcare, Robert Sillen, took umbrage with Florida-based private contractor Medical Development International (MDI) by withholding $2.6 million in fees and locking MDI out of two southern …
Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share by Gary Hunter For-profit private prison operator Management & Training Corporation (MTC) has recently lost lucrative contracts to run prisons in the United States and Canada. While the private prison industry is dominated by industry giants Corrections Corporation of America, Geo …
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